FEA Distinguished Alumnus: F. Kurdahi

Dr. Fadi Kurdahi was one of the 2008 FEA Distinguished Alumni. Introduced by Dean Ibrahim Hajj during the awards ceremony, he gave a talk entitled Software-Defined Radio and Reconfigurable Computing.
Fadi Kurdahi received his BE in EE from AUB in 1981 and his MS and PhD from the University of Southern California in 1982 and 1987, respectively. Since then, he has been a faculty at the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Information & Computer Science at UCI, where he conducts research in the areas of Computer Aided Design of VLSI circuits, high-level synthesis, and design methodology of large scale systems, and serves as the Associate Director for the Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS), one of the epicenters of embedded systems research worldwide. An IEEE Fellow, Professor Kurdahi has published more than 120 papers in his areas of research. He received the best paper award for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI in 2002, the best paper award in 2006 at ISQED, and three other distinguished paper awards at DAC, EuroDAC and ASP-DAC. He served as program chair, general chair or on program committees of numerous workshops, symposia and conferences in the area of CAD, VLSI, reconfigurable computing and system design.
Dr. Kurdahis talk focuses on Software-Defined Radio (SDR), an emerging technology that enables the adaptation of wireless systems to different protocols through software. Performance and power constraints make is very hard to implement such systems using general-purpose processors.
Reconfigurable Computing has been touted by many researchers as a viable platform for SDR implementation. In this talk a survey of some existing RC approaches for Software-Defined
Radio is presented with emphasis on a subset of these approaches, and one promising application of SDR—public safety—is highlighted.

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