Events

Distinguished Visitor Program Lecture by Prof. Amlan Chkrabarti (April 13, 2023 at Nirma University 11 AM)

Title "Scheduling Approaches for Accelerating Real-Time Tasks in Software-Hardware Codesign Paradigm" 

Speaker's Biography:

Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti is a Full Professor in the A.K.Choudhury School of Information Technology at the University of Calcutta. He was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the School of Engineering, Princeton University, USA during 2011-2012. He has 20+ years of experience in Engineering Education and Research. He is the recipient of the DST BOYSCAST fellowship award in Engineering Science (2011), the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Visiting Faculty Fellowship (2014), the JSPS Invitation Research Award (2016), Erasmus Mundus Leaders Award (2017), the Hamied Visiting Professorship from University of Cambridge, UK (2018), Siksha Ratna Award by Dept. of Higher Education Govt. of West Bengal (2018) and has been awarded as the Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (2022). He has also served in various capacities in various higher education organizations both at national and international levels. He has contributed immensely in the development of efficient computer algorithms and systems in multiple projects supervised by him in both International and National levels. He led research and consultancy projects supported by CERN Geneva, GSI Helmholtz Research Laboratory Germany, DST, DRDO MietY, Intel, TCS etc. He is also serving as the Head of IT and Tech. Innovation Cell of the Dept. of Higher Education Govt. of West Bengal. He has graduated 20 Ph.D. students till date and has published 200+ research papers. He is the Series Editor of Springer Transactions of Computer Systems and Networks, the Series Editor of the Springer Book Series on “Water Informatics”, an Associated Editor of the Elsevier Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering and Guest Editor of the Springer Journal of Applied Sciences. He is a Sr. Member of IEEE and ACM, IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, Distinguished Speaker of ACM, Secretary of IEEE CEDA India Chapter, Member of the International Water Association, Vice President of the Data Science Society and Life Member of CSI India. His areas of research are Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Reconfigurable Computing, VLSI CAD and Quantum Computing.

Abstract of the Talk:

Reconfigurable systems are increasingly being employed in a large class of today’s heterogeneous real-time systems which often demand satisfaction of stringent timeliness constraints. However, executing a set of hard real-time applications on reconfigurable systems such that all timing constraints are satisfied while also allowing efficient resource utilization requires effective scheduling, mapping and admission control strategies. In case of hardware tasks the reconfigurable space can considered as partitioned into tiles, which can be mapped to the tasks based on logic requirement and execution deadline. The tradeoff between task throughput, resource and energy requirements can be suitably handled in the run time by considering suitable hardware variants of the tasks that can be mapped through full/partial reconfiguration.

This lecture will brief on the preliminary concepts of task processing on FPGAs using soft and hard cores and the related architectural design. Scheduling strategies will also be introduced in regards to efficient mapping of tasks on reconfigurable cores both in full and partial reconfiguration domain.