When will the "CARDINAL" Lab be operational?
The lab exists now but only a few people use it. We want to expand it to reach out to a broader research community. We are submitting a proposal to the NSF to help fund this work. We hope we can begin the expansion sometime during the 2014-2015 academic year.
Results from Prior NSF Support
In 2011, Dr. Lee led a team which implemented a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) project funded by the NSF: Award No. 1126327; Amount: $123,144; Period of support: September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2014; Title: Custom Platform with Parallel Application from Rapid Simulation (PARS) Interconnecting DSPs and FPGAs for High Performance Computing.
This project developed an instrument for high performance computing based on PARS technology with multiple digital signal processors (DSP) and FPGAs. It also included an embedded processor with custom instructions capability, a development tool from Altera EP1C12 NIOS II, which allows users to run their applications on the entire system within the Simulink environment and then automatically generate code for multi-DSP and multi-FPGA in the system. The research activities enabled by this instrument spotlight the need for adding the capabilities of parallel processing and reconfigurability offered by FPGA and DSP, as well as suggest important applications of the instruments in various areas of science. These areas include mathematics (number theory, fixed point mapping), computer science (data structures, algorithm analysis, computer architectures, and networking), and engineering. The instrument contributed to five research projects: Fractal image compression, Cryptosystem with elliptic curve, Experimental soft-tissue mechanics, Image processing, and DSP implementation for measuring ultrasonic waves. So far the project has produced three (3) publications:
This project developed an instrument for high performance computing based on PARS technology with multiple digital signal processors (DSP) and FPGAs. It also included an embedded processor with custom instructions capability, a development tool from Altera EP1C12 NIOS II, which allows users to run their applications on the entire system within the Simulink environment and then automatically generate code for multi-DSP and multi-FPGA in the system. The research activities enabled by this instrument spotlight the need for adding the capabilities of parallel processing and reconfigurability offered by FPGA and DSP, as well as suggest important applications of the instruments in various areas of science. These areas include mathematics (number theory, fixed point mapping), computer science (data structures, algorithm analysis, computer architectures, and networking), and engineering. The instrument contributed to five research projects: Fractal image compression, Cryptosystem with elliptic curve, Experimental soft-tissue mechanics, Image processing, and DSP implementation for measuring ultrasonic waves. So far the project has produced three (3) publications:
- Lee, Tai-Chi, Michael Gubody, and Donovan Moore, "Session Keys for Encryption/Decryption in Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems", Forthcoming Issue of Proceedings of World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas.
- Lee, Tai-Chi. "Geometric Transformations via Matrix Multiplications Using Hardware/Software Co-design." Advances in Computer Science: an International Journal pp.91-96, Vol. 3, Issue 2, No.8 , March 2014.
- Lee, Tai-Chi. "A Public Key Generation in an Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem over GF (2n)." The International Journal of Pure & Applied Mathematics, Vol. 78, No. 6, pp 831-848, Academic Publications, 2012.