2020 Winners & Finalists
Politecnico di Milano
Lorenzo Farinelli, Daniele Valentino De Vincenti
(Marco D. Santambrogio)
PYNQ: Plaster
PhD/Comp Acc: FIDELTA
Multi-track & Multi-effect Sound Looper
Winner: Student Category
Comp Acc: DNA sequence analysis FPGA acceleration
PhD/Comp Acc: HEAWS - Homomorphic Encryption on AWS F1
Comp Acc: Maeve - FPGA implementation of KMP algorithm
University of Strathclyde
Geet Rose Jose, Spyridon Bizmpikis, James McCleary
(Dr. Louise Helen Crockett)
PYNQ: PyPix
Portable Linear Algebra on FPGA using Data-Centric Parallel Programming
Winner: PhD Category
Student/Comp Acc: Massively Parallel N-Body Simulation on FPGA
Personalized PageRank low-latency Recommender Systems
Winner: PhD Category
Complutense University of Madrid
Fernando Candelario Herrero
(José Manuel Mendías Cuadros)
PhD/Comp Acc: X-drop on FPGA
Student: PARS: Design Space Exploration for Low-Latency Ring-LWE via HLS
Student: FPGA Implementation of the SEED Encryption Algorithm
Eskiehir Technical University
Mehmet Atakan Kalkar, Adem Savaş
(Ismail San)
Student: Testing tool for FPGAs
Student: ELON: Autonomous Parking via Deep Q Learning
Student: Piano MIDI Player Soc
Student: Object detection from point clouds using deep neural networks
Hardware Acceleration of Support Vector Machines on PYNQ
Winner: PYNQ Category
PhD: An efficient FPGA-based deconvolver for deep learning applications
PhD: NCO based CDR implementation in FPGA
P4DNS: In Network DNS
Winner: Student Category
Flexible Communication Avoiding Matrix Multiplication on FPGA with HLS
Winner: Compute Acceleration
Open Hardware 2020
Open Hardware is run in partnership by the Xilinx University Program, the Europractice Software Service (STFC), and CNFM
Student: Neural Epilepsy detection
Student: SelfBulance: A Self Driving Ambulance via Deep Q Learning: An SoC Solution
Student: Webcam-based Real-Time Optical Mark Reader
Student: FPGA acceleration of Spike-timing-dependent plasticity learning for Spiking Neural Networks
Cairo University
Heba Elhosary
(Hassan Mostafa)
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University of Calabria
Andrea Migali, Roman Huzyuk, Mario Andrea Sangiovanni
(Stefania Perri)
Student: Low Power Narrowband IoT Downlink Receiver
Student: Development of PCIe Debug Kit
Student: Efficient SIMD 2D convolution engine
Student: ExReg:Exploiting Regular Structures with custom RapidWright Placer
Cairo University
Abdallah Mahmoud Abostait, Abanob Emil Subhy, Aya Ahmed Magdy Alhawary
(Hassan Mostafa)
PYNQ: Sensorial fusion via QNNs
Student: Extending RISC-V instruction set for NTRU Algorithm