My research interests lie in problems that arise at the software/hardware boundary: specifically embedded systems, hardware acceleration and real-time operating systems.

Complete List

Copies

• Christian Fobel, Gary Grewal, and Andrew Morton. "Hardware accelerated FPGA placement." Microelectronics Journal, 40(11):1667-1671, November 2009.
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• Santheeban Kandasamy, Andrew Morton, and Wayne M. Loucks, "Configuration Scheduling using Temporal Locality and Kernel Correlation," In IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop, p. 1-5, April 2008.
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• Morton, A., Song, I., and Liu, J., "Efficient Priority-Queue Data Structure for Hardware Implementation," for System on Chip Designs,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, p. 476-479, 2007.
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• Christian Fobel, Gary Grewal, and Andrew Morton, "Hardware Accelerated FPGA Placement," In IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems / IEEE International Northeast Workshop on Circuits & Systems, p. 1134-1137, August 2007.
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• Morton, A., "Hardware/Software Partitioning and Scheduling of Embedded Systems," PhD Thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2005.
  Dissertation
• Morton, A., and Loucks, W. M., "A Hardware/Software Kernel for System on Chip Designs,'' Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, p. 869-875, Nicosia Cyprus, March 14-17, 2004.
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• Morton, A., and Loucks, W. M., "Real-time Kernel Support for Coprocessors: Empirical Study of an SoPC," Proceedings of the Embedded Systems and Applications Conference, p. 10-15, Las Vegas, June 23-26, 2003.
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• Grewal, G., Wilson, T. and Morton, A., "An EGA Approach to the Compile-Time Assignment of Data to Multiple Memories in Digital-Signal Processors," ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News (Special Issue: MEDEA Workshop), Vol 31, No 1, pp 49-59, March 2003.
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• Kernel and Application Partitioning for EDF Schedule Feasability, IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity: Symposium on Electronic Design Automation, Toronto, Canada, September 2009.
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• EDF Feasibility and Hardware Accelerators, Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference, Paris France, August 2007.
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• Research program overview, Undergrad Comp Eng class, Waterloo, November 2006.
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• A multi-objective integer-linear programming model for assigning data to memory in the dsp domain, Workshop on Memory Performance Issues, Austin Texas, February 2006.
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• PhD Defense, University of Waterloo, January 2005.
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• A Hardware/Software Kernel for System on Chip Designs, Symposium on Applied Computing, Nicosia Cyprus, March 2004.
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• Real-time Kernel Support for Coprocessors: Empirical Study of an SoPC, Embedded Systems and Applications Conference, Las Vegas, June, 2003.
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• Daniel Miller, Undergrad Research Assistant, Spring 2007
  Hybrid Scheduling of MPSoC (Multiprocessor System on Chip)
• Santheeban Kandasamy, MASc, 2006-2007
  Scheduling of Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems
• Christian Fobel, MSc, 2005-2007 (U of Guelph)
  Hardware Acceleration of FPGA Placement Problem
• Igor Solovey, Undergrad Research Assistant, Spring 2007
  mQ Synthesis and uCOS integration on Virtex-II Pro
• Jeff Liu, Undergrad Research Assistant, Fall 2006
  Hardware Data Structure for Fixed-Priority Preemptive Scheduling
• Nahid Rahman, Undergrad Research Assistant, Winter 2005
  Assembly Parsing for Coprocessor Synthesis