Robert A. Walker received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1988. He joined the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989, and moved to Kent State University in 1996. His early research interests were in the field of high-level synthesis, in particular the scheduling and design space exploration problems. He wrote numerous papers on these topics, and was the co-author of Algorithmic and Register-Transfer Level Synthesis: The System Architect's Workbench (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990) and A Survey of High-Level Synthesis Systems (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991). Much of this work was supported by the National Science Foundation under awards MIP-9211323, MIP-9423953, and MIP-9796085. More recently he has become interested in modeling and synthesizing parallel and distributed systems. Together with Professor Jerry Potter, he and his students are developing a FPLD implementation of an associate processor array based on the ASC/MASC model developed at Kent State. This processor array will perform constant-time searching and min/max operations, and is particularly well-suited for use as a dedicated co-processor in relational database managememt, data mining, air traffic control, image processing, and graphics.
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Design and implementation of parallel and distributed architectures
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Parallel and distributed computing
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Hardware-software codesign
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High-level (behavioral) synthesis
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