Students working with Steve Wilton:

Graduate Students:

• Kyle Balston: Post-Silicon Debug
• Assem Bsoul: Low Power FPGAs
• Joydip Das: FPGA Modeling
• Stuart Dueck: FPGA Applications
• Jeffrey Goeders: Low-Power FPGAs
• Eddie Hung: Post-Silicon Debug

Former Graduate Students and Post-Docs:

• Dr. Scott Chin: PhD, July 2011
  • Thesis Title: Improving the Run-Time and Memory Scalability of FPGA CAD Algorithms
  • Now with Tektronix EIG (formerly Veridae Systems)
• Dr. Usman Ahmed: PhD, April 2011
  • Thesis Title: Impact of Custom Interconnect Masks on Cost and Performance of Structured ASICs
  • Co-supervised with Guy Lemieux
  • Now with Altera
• Brad Quinton: Post-Doc
  • Now with Tektronix EIG (formerly CTO of Veridae Systems)
• Trent McClements: Research Associate
  • Now with Tektronix EIG (formerly Veridae Systems)
• Dr. Sohaib Majzoub: Ph.D. August 2010.
  • Thesis Title: Energy Optimization for Many-Core Platforms under Process, Voltage and Temperature Variations
  • Now an Assistant Professor at American University in Dubai
• Dr. Dipanjan Sengupta: Ph.D. July 2010.
  • Thesis Title: Low Power System-on-Chip Design using Voltage Islands: from Application to Floorplan [pdf]
  • Now a Post-Doc at University of Toronto
• Andrew Hughes: Research Associate
  • Now with Tektronix EIG (formerly Veridae Systems)
• Andrew Lam, M.A.Sc. Feb 2010.
  • Thesis Title: An Analytical Model of FPGA Logic Resource Utilization for Architecture Development [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now with Ausenco
• Marcel Gort, M.A.Sc. Aug 2008.
  • Thesis Title: Practical Considerations for Post-Silicon Debug using BackSpace [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now a PhD student at the University of Toronto
• Cindy Mark, M.A.Sc. November 2008.
  • Thesis Title: A System-Level Synthetic Circuit Generator for FPGA Architectural Analysis [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now with PMC-Sierra
• Dr. Brad Quinton, Ph.D., October 2008.
  • Thesis Title: A Reconfigurable Post-Silicon Debug Infrastructure for Systems-on-Chip [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now with Tektronix EIG (formerly Veridae Systems)
• Dr. Alastair Smith, Post-Doc, October 2008.
  • Now at PA Consulting
• Dr. Julien Lamoureux, Ph.D., September 2007
  • Thesis Title: Modeling and Reduction of Dynamic Power in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now with Tektronix EIG (formerly Veridae Systems)
• Nathalie Chan King Choy, M.A.Sc., October 2006
  • Thesis Title: Activity-based Power Estimation and Characterization of DSP and Multiplier Blocks in FPGAs [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now at Xilinx
• Scott Chin: M.A.Sc., August 2006
  • Thesis Title: Power Implications of Implementing Logic using FPGA Embedded Memory Blocks
  • Now with Tektronix EIG (formerly Veridae Systems)
• Zion Kwok: M.A.Sc., April 2005
  • Thesis Title: Register File Architecture Optimization in a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array
  • Now with Intel
• Andy Yan: M.A.Sc., January 2005
  • Thesis Title: Product-Term Based Synthesizable Embedded Programmable Logic Cores [abstract] [pdf] [slides]
  • Now with Microsoft
• James Wu, M.A.Sc., September 2004
  • Thesis Title: Implementation Considerations for "Soft" Embedded Programmable Logic Cores [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now with PMC-Sierra
• Noha Kafafi: M.A.Sc. Nov 2003.
  • Thesis Title: Architectures and Algorithms for Embedded Synthesizable Programmable Logic Cores [slides]
  • Now with Teradici
• Julien Lamoureux: M.A.Sc. June 2003.
  • Thesis Title: On the Interaction Between Power-Aware Computer-Aided Design Algorithms for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now with Tektronix EIG (formerly Veridae Systems)
• Peter Hallschmid: M.A.Sc. June 2003.
  • Thesis Title: Detailed Routing Architectures for Embedded Programmable IP Cores
  • Now an Assistant Professor, UBC Okanagan
• Danna Cao: M.Eng, May 2003.
  • Project Title: FPGA Routing Circuitry
  • Now with Microsoft
• Kara Poon: M.A.Sc. August 2002.
  • Thesis Title: Power Estimation for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays [abstract] [pdf] [code].
  • Now at Altera.
• Maria Lei: M.Eng. August 2002.
  • Project Title: Bluetooth Qualification
  • Now with Philips
• Tony Wong: M.A.Sc. May 2002.
  • Thesis Title: Non-Rectangular Embedded Programmable Logic Cores [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now at NDCHealth.
• Steve Oldridge: M.A.Sc. April 2002.
  • Thesis Title: A Novel FPGA Architecture Supporting Wide Shallow Memories [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now a Ph.D. Student in the HCT Lab.
• Ernie Lin, M.A.Sc. September 2001.
  • Thesis Title: Product Term Mode Embedded Memory Arrays: Algorithms and Architectures [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now at PMC-Sierra
• Imran Masud, M.A.Sc. December 1999.
  • Thesis Title: ``FPGA Routing Structures: A Novel Switch Block and Depopulated Interconnect Matrix Architecture'' [abstract] [pdf]
  • Now with Cisco