IEEE / Engineers Australia Seminar

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Abstract

In this seminar Dr Williams will briefly introduce the concept of
programmable FPGAs, and how they are reshaping the embedded computing
landscape as more and more digital systems come to be implemented
entirely on a programmable logic substrate.  He will then discuss the
role of Embedded Linux in this landscape, giving some history and
current outlook, followed up by a commercial case-study where the
combination of Linux and the FPGA enabled a high-performance, custom
computing solution to solve a real-world image processing and analysis
problem.

Speaker Bio

Dr John Williams is the Founder and CEO of PetaLogix, a Brisbane-based
company specialising in products and services for deploying Embedded
Linux on Programmable FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array)
architectures.  PetaLogix has a staff of 6 and serves the global
electronics industry from billion-dollar corporate behemoths to small
engineering consulting firms.  John also maintains a part-time
appointment at the University of Queensland, lecturing operating
systems and supervising postgraduate and undergraduate students. Prior
to the spin-out of PetaLogix from UQ in 2007, John was a post-doc
researcher where he pioneered the use of Embedded Linux on FPGA
platforms, and undertook collaborative research projects with
organisations including NASA.  John holds a PhD in Electronic
Engineering (Computer Vision), and undergraduate degrees in IT and
Electronic Systems Engineering.