Once again we had a good showing at 28th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2018). FPL is the premier European venue for publishing research results in the field of FPGAs and reconfigurable systems. This year, the conference was held in Dublin Ireland. Michael Barrow made the trip to present our two papers.

The first paper was “Everyone’s a Critic: A Tool for Exploring RISC-V Projects”, which describes a tool that provides a way to compare and evaluate the different RISC V architectures with a streamlined suite of tutorials, drivers, and deployment packages on the Pynq development board. The tool is open source at on the github repo: https://github.com/drichmond/RISC-V-On-PYNQ . This project was lead by Dr. Dustin Richmond with contributions by Michael Barrow.

The second paper was “A FPGA Accelerator for Real-Time 3D Non-Rigid Registration Using Tree Reweighted Message Passing and Dynamic Markov Random Field Generation”. This project developed a novel reconfigurable system that performs real-time 3D registration — a fundamental computer vision problem with applications in augmented reality, 3D modeling, and computer vision. The architecture was developed with Stephen Burns from Intel (and the result of the time project lead Michael Barrow internship there). Our system is more energy efficient and higher performing than comparable software or hardware approaches with a minimal reduction in registration accuracy.