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Biography:
Cameron Patterson received the B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 1980 and 1983 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada, in 1992. From 1992 to 1994 he held an NSERC Industrial Research Fellowship at the Alberta Microelectronic Centre in Canada. During this time he designed ASICs, developed algorithms to partition circuits over multiple FPGAs, lectured on VLSI design at the University of Calgary, and was on the technical program committee for the Canadian Conference on VLSI. From 1994 to 2003 Dr. Patterson was a researcher at Xilinx, the leading manufacturer of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. His contributions to the XC6200, CoreGen and JBits projects resulted in five patents, with five more under review. Since 2003, he has been an Associate Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Research Areas:
- Reconfigurable and secure computing
- Algorithms for electronic design automation
- Model-based design of software defined radios
Selected Publications:
- S.W. Ellingson, C.D. Patterson and J.H. Simonetti, “Design and Demonstration of an Antenna for a New 29–47 MHz Radio Telescope Array,” to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Albuquerque, NM, Jul 2006.
- P. Athanas, J. Edmison, J. Graf, M. Jones, T. Mahar, B. Muzal, C. Patterson and J. Stroud, “Improving Security of Networked Embedded Systems: Preliminary Results for the Secure Software Platform,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms, Las Vegas, NV, Jun 2005, pp. 31-40.
- Stephen Craven, Cameron Patterson, and Peter Athanas, “Configurable Soft Processor Arrays Using the OpenFire Processor,” Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices International Conference, Washington DC, Sep 2005.
- Dong Kwan Kim, Cameron Patterson and Peter Athanas, “Open Architecture Hierarchical Placement for FPGA Datapath Designs,” International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, Algarve, Portugal, Feb 2005.
- Alexandra Poetter, Jesse Hunter, Cameron Patterson, Peter Athanas, Brent Nelson and Neil Steiner, “JHDLBits: The Merging of Two Worlds,” International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and its Applications, Antwerp, Belgium, Aug 2004, pp. 414-423.
- Paul Graham, Michael Caffrey, Jason Zimmerman, Prasanna Sundararajan, Eric Johnson and Cameron Patterson, “Consequences and Categories of SRAM FPGA Configuration SEUs,” Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices International Conference, Baltimore MD, Sep 2003.
- C. Patterson, “A Dynamic Module Server for Embedded Platform FPGAs,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms, Las Vegas, NV, Jun 2003, pp. 31-40.
- S. McMillan and C. Patterson, “JBits Implementations of the Advanced Encryption Standard (Rijndael),” Proceedings of the International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Aug 2001, pp. 162-171.
- C. Patterson, “High Performance DES Encryption in Virtex FPGAs using JBits,” IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, Napa Valley, CA, Apr 2000, pp. 113-121.
- C. Patterson, “A Dynamic FPGA Implementation of the Serpent Block Cipher,” International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Worcester, MA, Aug 2000, pp. 141-155.
