Congratulations to the entire UTD and Raytheon team for winning the 2025 GOMACtech best student poster award. Special thanks for Chailtai Sathe, first author, and Aric Fowler for presenting the paper entitled “What to Redact? Guidelines for Cost-Effective Hardware Intellectual Property Protection”, by Sathe, A. Fowler, C. Sechen, B. Carrion Schaefer, Y. Makris The University of Texas at Dallas, and M. Zaman and R. Narumi Raytheon, An RTX Business.
Best student poster award
I have released the second edition of High-Level Synthesis Made Easy.
The updated version includes revisions and additional material including a chapter with advanced HLS optimizations, and a chapter with examples.
A PDF copy is available at www.hlsbook.com and hard copy can be purchased on Amazon here.
The DARClab hosted at UT Dallas the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design ( ICCD 2025) between November 10-12. Great technical presentations, keynotes from Synopsys, NVIDIA and AMD, tutorials, LLM for hardware design challenge.
Congratulations to Chaitali (Dr. Sathe) for successfully defending her PhD entitled ” Evolving Defense Mechanisms and Attack Frameworks in Hardware IP Security”. Well done!
A new University of Texas at Dallas initiative will provide financial, academic and career training support to low-income students pursuing master’s degrees in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) fields.
The Advancing Innovation in Master of Science and Engineering (AIM S&E) Scholars Career Development program is designed to produce graduates who will continue their education by pursuing a PhD in a STEM area or who will enter the STEM workforce in areas of national need, such as artificial intelligence (AI), biomedical sciences and engineering.
The project is funded by a $2 million grant (2527796) from the National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the goal of which is to increase the number of academically talented students from low-income backgrounds who complete STEM degrees and enter the U.S. STEM workforce. The program supports student mentoring and career development, as well as research on factors that contribute to student success.
Eligible students in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) and the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science will be invited to apply for scholarships of up to $20,000 per year. The first scholarships are expected to be awarded for the fall 2026 term.
Congratulations to Imtiaz for receiving the ECE Doctoral Dissertation Award and congratulations on starting a new job a Texas Instruments @TXInstruments.
The DARClab will organize the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2025) here at the University of Texas at Dallas from November 10th to 12th. You can find more information at www.iccd-conf.com
The ECE department offers every semester opportunities for undergraduate students to join a research lab and be exposed to their research activities.
This semester the DARClab has hosted Omar Abioye who was been working on the topic of approximate computing.
Congratulations to Victoria for being offered the DoD Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service award.
The SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program offers full tuition, annual stipends, internship, and guaranteed civilian employment with the Department of Defense for students pursuing undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral degrees in one of SMART’s 24 STEM disciplines.
Only 2 students at UT Dallas have received this award!
A new book covering applications of HLS has just been published. The book can be downloaded for free from www.hlsbook.com and a hardcopy can be purchased through the Amazon book store here.
The book contains 8 chapters as follows:
Enjoy it!