2014 IX Shouthern Conference on Programmable Logic (SPL

ELIAS TODOROVICH; RICARDO CAYSSIALS; EDGARDO FERRO; EDUARDO BOEMO

IEEE

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2014 p. 145

978-1-4799-6848-0

The history of SPL started in 2005. Its aim was to create a network of Latin American laboratories to spread FPGA as a key technology for industry, updating university curricula to include related subjects. The original partners were the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, the University of Lima in Peru, and the Argentinean Universities of Mar del Plata, Salta, Tandil, and CAECE. Initial support was obtained from a grant of Banco Santander. SPL topics include Embedded Processors and IP Cores, System-on-Chip, Computer Arithmetic, Image Processing and Vision, FPGA Architectures for Specific Applications, Fault Tolerance, Test & Verification, High-Performance Computing. In March 2005, the first SPL Conference was attended by more than 60 people from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Peru. This 5-day workshop, in CAECE University in Mar del Plata, introduced students, professors and engineers to the FPGA state of the art.