“Microchip-based devices and systems on a chip become more and more popular today. According to experts about 50 billion devices connected with a network will have been used by 2020,” said Alexey Platunov, professor of Chair of Computation Technologies and head of the Laboratory of Architectures and Designed Techniques for Embedded Systems and Systems on Chip.
The seminar and training on MIPS architecture implementation brought together researchers and PhD students of leading St. Petersburg universities as well as instrumentation engineers. Taking part in hands-on training experts and students learn how processor core MIPSfpga worked. Representatives of Imagination Technologies, Mathworks and Macro Group presented their reports. Thus Mikhail Peselnik and Denis Zheganin, Mathworks` experts, talked about how to design MIPS using Simulink.
After the presentations participants visited Laboratory of Architectures and Designed Techniques for Embedded Systems and Systems on Chip where they assembled a system based on processor core MIPSfpga. Thanks to enthusiasm of participants it was also decided to prolong the training so as to give them an opportunity to deal with the equipment for two days.
According to Timur Paltashev, Visualization Technologies Chair`s head, Russia falls behind with microchip development and computer science research. It needs to improve IT products` designing. That is why ITMO University partners with international researchers and industry experts driving for improvement in Russian inventions.
“Chair of Computation Technologies contributes to development of computer engineering in Russia…Basing on their own research scientists designed hardware-software systems with unique architecture. It distinguishes the lab from other IT research centers and attract lots of experts,” noted Mr. Paltashev.