Configurable Computing Lab Graduate Student

Paul Graham

Paul, a PhD student, is presently researching the use of reconfigurable hardware in several areas. Specifically, he is involved with developing specialized hardware using FPGAs and other forms of reconfigurable logic for sonar beamforming and digital signal processing. He is also interested in the development of CAD tool support for run-time reconfiguration.

Past projects have included implementing genetic algorithms in hardware (SPLASH II and other FPGA-based platforms), evaluating the use of FPGAs for floating-point arithmetic and mathematical image morphology, and studying the applicability of reconfigurable computers to the (C3I Non-Real-Time Parallel benchmarks).

He is married to Samara McGrath and has a daughter named Brenna. His personal interests include raquetball, international films, cycling, and playing the piano and guitar.

Publications

Frequency-Domain Sonar Processing in FPGAs and DSPs (83 K)

Paul Graham, Brent Nelson

"Frequency-Domain Sonar Processing in FPGAs and DSPs", in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines , April 1998,pp. TBA.

FPGA-based Sonar Processing (203 K) (gzip-64 K) (pdf-120 K)

Paul Graham, Brent Nelson

"FPGA-based Sonar Processing", in ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, , February 1998,pp. 201-208.

Genetic Algorithms In Software and In Hardware - A Performance Analysis of Workstation and Custom Computing Machine Implementations (194K) (gzip-57K)

P. Graham, B. Nelson.

"Genetic Algorithms In Software and In Hardware - A Performance Analysis of Workstation and Custom Computing Machine Implementations". In Jeffrey Arnold and Kenneth L. Pocek, editors, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, pages 216-225, Los Alamitos, California, April 1996. IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computer Society Press.

A Hardware Genetic Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem on SPLASH 2 (195K) (gzip-51K)

P. Graham, B. Nelson.

"A Hardware Genetic Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem on SPLASH 2", In 5th International Workshop on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, pp 352-361, August 1995, Oxford, England.

Master's Thesis

A Description, Analysis, and Comparison of a Hardware and a Software Implementation of the SPLASH Genetic Algorithm for Optimizing Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problems (3558 K) (gzip-709 K)

Paul S. Graham, Masters Thesis, Brigham Young University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 1996.

Please send comments to: grahamp@fpga.ee.byu.edu