Altera Best Paper Awards
Altera Corporation has donated two DE2 boards to reward the best papers presented at SPL 2007 and Designer Forum related to Altera Technology.
Winners:
V. Rodellar, F. Díaz, B. Belean, R. Malutan,
B. Stetter, P. Gómez, R. Martínez, E. García, J. Peláez
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Hospital de Montepríncipe
"Genomic Microarray Image Processing on a Fpga for Portable Remote Applications"
Emerson C. Pedrino, Marcelo Marinho, Valentin O. Roda, Osmar Ogasawara
Universidade de São Paulo
"Arquitetura para Crescimento de Regiões de Imagens Binárias"
Xilinx Best Paper Awards
Xilinx Inc. has donated one Spartan-3 Starter boards to reward the best papers presented at SPL 2007 and Designer Forum related to Xilinx Technology.
Winner:
Daniel Sebastián Estryk, Gloria Elisa Rios, Claudio Abel Verrastro
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
"FPGA Neural Networks Implementation for Nuclear Pulses Parameters Estimation"
Celoxica Best Paper Awards
Celoxica Ltd. has donated two XIlinx ESL starter Kits (include DK licence for Xilinx and a RC10 board) to reward the best papers presented at SPL 2007 and Designer Forum.
Winners:
Catherine L. Zhou, Wai-Chung Tang, Yu-Liang Wu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
"Fast Placement-intact Logic Perturbation Targeting for FPGA Performance Improvement"
Manuel Hernández Calviño, José Ignacio Benavides Benítez, Sergio R. Geninatti, Francisco Javier Hórmigo Aguilar, Julio Villalba Moreno
Universidad de La Habana, Universidad de Córdoba (Spain), Universidad de Rosario, Universidad de Málaga
"Hardware Accelerators for the Microblaze Software Embedded Processor"
Synplicity Best Paper Awards
Synplicity Inc. has donated four sets of their most popular and powerful products —Synplify® Premier (which includes Synplify Pro® and Identify®), Synplify® DSP and Certify® software to award the Universities of the winning papers at SPL 2007 and the Designer Forum.
Winners:
Esam El-Araby, Mohamed Taher, Mohamed Abouellail, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Gregory Newby
The George Washington Univeristy
"Comparative Analysis of High Level Programming for Reconfigurable Computers: Methodology and Empirical Study"
Heiko Hinkelmann, Kai Groneberg, Manfred Glesner
Darmstadt University of Technology
"A General Model for Common Hardware Reconfiguration Techniques and their Optimization"
F. Gago Rodríguez, L. F. Rodríguez Ramos, G. Herrera Carlés, J. V. Gigante, A. Alonso, T. Viera, J. Piqueras, J. J. Díaz García
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
"TIP-TILT Mirror Control Based on FPGA for an Adaptive Optics System"
Diego E. Costa, Esteban M. Peláez, Carlos F. Sosa Páez, Héctor Vellón
Universidad Nacional de San Luis
"Administrador de Paquetes para Capa de Protocolo USB 2.0"
The Jury is composed by the SPL Steering Committee as well as the members of the Program Committee present at SPL.