ECE Research Seminar Series: Polymorphic Computing

This virtual seminar is open to everyone at Illinois Institute of Technology. For more information, please contact the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at 312.567.3400 or ece@iit.edu.

Abstract 

In this current age of computing, the processing speed of individual processor cores is no longer doubling every 18 months according to Moore's law. This doubling was fueled in equal parts by frequency scaling, transistor scaling, and computer architecture improvements. Frequency scaling has stalled, while transistor scaling and computer architecture improvements have produced only minor processing speed improvements. This seminar will talk about a hopeful emerging area in computer architecture improvement called polymorphic computing and David Hentrich's 2018 Illinois Tech Ph.D. thesis in this area. First, polymorphic computing will be defined. Second, the history of reconfigurable computing and polymorphic computing will be discussed. Finally, Hentrich's solution to polymorphic computing will be presented. 

Speaker’s Biography 

Hentrich received his B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Dayton. He received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering and an M.S. degree in computer engineering from the Illinois Tech in 2007. He received a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the Illinois Tech in 2018. His research interests include reconfigurable computing, polymorphic computing, instruction set design, and memory design.