- Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 6:30
to 8:30 pm
Annual Banquet for
the Boise Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society
Our presenters
this year were Caleb Chung and John Sosoka of Ugobe Systems, who
discussed innovation and the making of Pelo.
- Monday, June 11, 2007, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm:
Static vs. Analysis Tools
Finding The Right Bug Spray
SPEAKER: Anuj Goyal
Location: Boise
State University, Micron Engineering Center (MEC) 114 ,
1910 University Drive, Boise, ID
Title: Static
vs. Analysis Tools: Finding The Right Bug Spray
ABSTRACT: This
presentation will cover the evolution of source code analysis from
Lint to the latest technologies of 2007. As the complexity of
software has grown in recent years, new methods of automated software
analysis and testing have flooded the marketplace, promising greater
coverage and the ability to catch bugs earlier in development. You’ll
learn the similarities and key differences between the two
approaches, and what to look at when evaluating potential additions
to
your software QA process.
BIOGRAPHY: Anuj
Goyal is a Senior Systems Engineer at Coverity, Inc.
SPEAKER: Brett Davis
Location: HP
Main Auditorium, 11311 W Chinden Blvd, Boise, ID
Title: Finite
State Machine coding Styles for Implementation of FPGAs
ABSTRACT:
Finite State Machines (FSM), are one of the more complex structures
found in almost all digital systems today. Hardware Description
Languages are used for high-level digital system design. VHDL
provides the capability of different coding styles for FSMs.
Therefore, a choice of coding style is needed to achieve specific
performance goals and to minimize resource utilization for
implementation in a re-configurable computing environment such as an
FPGA. Presented are the tradeoffs that can be made by changing coding
styles. A comparative study on three different FSM coding styles is
shown to address their impact on performance and resource utilization
for the most commonly used encoding methods for FPGA designs. The
results show that a particular coding style leads to a savings in
resource utilization with a significant performance improvement over
the others while the others pose a consistent performance regardless
of the resource utilization outcome.
BIOGRAPHY:
Brett Davis is a hardware design engineer at Hewlett Packard
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