Lars Bengtsson, Ph.D,
Docent.
Associate Professor in Computer Systems Engineering, Chalmers University
of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
phone 031 7728441; int: +46 31 7728441; fax 031 7723663; fax int: +46 31 7723663; Email: lars
"at" ieee"dot"org; home phone
0340/679024; home phone int: +46 340 679024; mobile:
0731 517140, mobile int: +46 731 517140 .
Senior Member of the IEEE and member of the ACM.
Research:
Academic
activities and published papers
Research group "Embedded and networked
processors".
Teaching 2011/2012:
Q4: EDA331 -
Computer Systems Engineering
Q1-Q4: Examiner and supervisor of a number of MSc
thesis projects
Previous teaching
including course development, management, lecturing and examination:
- Computer architecture
implementation course
- Project
course semester on the IESD Master programme.
FPGA & digital ASIC designs
- VLSI-design
- VLSI-project course using
Cadence and Synopsys tools
- Hardware design using VHDL
- C-programming course
- Real-time systems
- Operating systems
- Microcomputer design and
testing
- CAD assisted electronics design
- "Director of Studies"
and program manager of the Electrical Engineering program at Halmstad U.
- Introduction to electronic
system design
Research
projects:
- Active RFID systems and
circuits.
- Circuits and chip
implementations using non-standard
arithmetic (RNS and SD) in digital signal processing hardware. On-line VHDL lib available here.
Previous research projects:
- The DSP-PP project. PhD
student Minh Quang Do.
- Grid computing. The Jalapeno
GRID computing system.
- REMAP. Modular, Massively
Parallel Computer Architectures for Embedded Real-Time Systems. Click here
for layout plot of processor IC.
- PARAD. Parallel Architectures
for Signal Processing Applications (in cooperation with Ericsson Microwave
Systems, Molndal).
- "A new type of generic
low-power design-circuit oriented". Funded by the SSF/Intelect program. In cooperation with the departments
"Physical Electronics and Photonics, CTH" (Magnus Willander and Magnus Karlsteen),
"VLSI Circuit Design Group, CTH" (Kjell Jeppson), and
Electronics and Physics Laboratory, HH" (Håkan Pettersson).
PhD Student: Jonathan Vincent.
- "Energy- and
Engineer-Efficient architectures ("EEE")". Cooperation
between Ericsson Microwave Systems, Mercury
Computer Systems and Halmstad U.
PhD/Lic/MSc Thesis:
- "A Scalable SIMD
VLSI-architecture with Hierarchical Control", PhD dissertation,
Chalmers, 1997.
- "Multiplex Wiring
Systems for Automotive Vehicles", Lic Tech
thesis, Chalmers, 1989.
- "Synthetic Speech
for the APN548 Computer", MSc thesis, Chalmers, 1983.
Previous employments:
- 1982-1984: Ericsson Radio Systems, worked with datacommunications software and hardware
- 1984-1985: Swedot AB,
worked with thermoprinter software
- 1985-1987: Chalmers University of Technology,
Gothenburg, Sweden, teaching assistant and graduate student, worked with
multiplex wiring electronics for vehicles in cooperation with
SAAB/Mecel.
- 1987-1990: SAAB/Mecel AB, Gothenburg,
Sweden. Project manager. Worked with multiplex wiring HW & SW for
cars.
- 1990-2000: Halmstad University
- 2000-2009: Chalmers University of Technology. Universitetslektor, Computer Systems Engineering
- 2009- : Chalmers
University of Technology. Docent, Associate Professor, Computer
Systems Engineering