“Developing heterogeneous systems (CPU plus FPGA) using the OpenCL standard”

On Nov. 15, 2011, Altera Corporation announced a development program focused on the Open Computing Language (OpenCL™) standard for FPGAs and SoC FPGAs. Altera's OpenCL program combines the parallel performance capability of FPGAs with the OpenCL standard to enable powerful system acceleration.

Through its OpenCL program, Altera has engaged with multiple customers and expanded its university program to support the OpenCL standard for FPGA development in academia, and is actively contributing to the evolution of the OpenCL standard based on customer feedback.

Read more: Altera Announces Industry's First OpenCL Program for FPGAs

To learn more about OpenCL - The Open Standard for Parallel Programming of Heterogeneous Systems, visit the KHRONOS Group Website

“Developing IP cores and scalable libraries for heterogeneous systems”

“Hardware security and trust in reconfigurable heterogeneous systems”

A wide range of applications relies on dedicated, embedded hardware platforms, which, in a most complex case, tend to be reconfigurable heterogeneous systems. The critical issue is the trusted and secure hardware design. The other critical issue is the intellectual-property protection.

The applications may range from Internet protocols, telecommunication systems, power grids, military systems, databases, and financial services, if to list some of these.

We will concentrate, but not limiting, on the following topics.

• Design methodologies for secure and trusted hardware and software
• Protection and identification techniques for IP cores
• Trojan detection and hardware cryptography

Visit also ERSA’11 security related sessions.

ERSA’11 Keynote talks:

• Prof. Eugene Howard Spafford, The Nature of Cyber Security.
• Prof. Jürgen Teich, Verifying the Authorship of Embedded IP Cores: Watermarking and Core Identification Techniques.

ERSA’11 Invited talks:

• Dr. Kimmo Järvinen, Elliptic curve cryptography on FPGAs: How fast can we go with a single chip?
• Prof. Ryan Kastner, Enforcing Information Flow Guarantees in Reconfigurable Systems with Mix-trusted IP.
• Dr. Ted Huffmire, 3-D Extensions for Trustworthy Systems.
• Dr. Steve Borbash, It Takes a “Village” (to create a science): From crypto science to security science.
• And much more