Overview
The embedded computing lab is headed by Prof. Xinming Huang and is part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The lab is located in room AK208B on the second floor of the Atwater Kent Laboratories building.
The research focus of the embedded computing labs is on the theories, architectures, and applications of embedded computing. The term "embedded computing" has been used for decades to describe the computational property embedded in a physical component or system, or within the constraints of a physical system. The radical transformation that we envision comes from networking these devices with reconfigurability. The challenge of the circuits and systems design is to achieve high performance computing at lower power consumption with added flexibility.
Current research projects encompass coarse-grain reconfigurable architecture design, VLSI and SoC design for cooperative communication, modeling of networked heterogeneous embedded systems, and high performance computing using FPGAs as accelerators.
News Update
| September 2007: Professor Xinming Huang presented a poster paper at the 12th HPEC Workshop, titled "SmartCell: A Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture for High Performance and Low Power Embedded Computing". |
| August 2007: Professor Huang was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) with his project entitled "Collaborative Research: An Universal Cooperative Communication System-on-Chip". The project is a collaboration among WPI, University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Oregon State University. |
| August 2007: Wenxuan Guo presented a paper at the WASA 2007 conference, titled "Relaying Packets in a Two-tiered Wireless Network Using Binary Integer Programming". |
| June 2007: Cao Liang presented a paper at the ACM Infoscale 2007 conference, titled "A Fault Tolerant and Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Urban Sensor Networks". |
| April 2007: Professor Huang presented a paper at the SPIE Defense and Security 2007 Symposium, titled "A fault-tolerant fully adaptive routing algorithm for collaborative computing in wireless mesh networks". |
| January 2007: Professor Huang received the DARPA Young Faculty Award for the his research project entitled "SMARTCELL: Dynamically Reconfigurable Kilo-Processor Architecture for Low-Power High Performance Embedded Computing". |