Weifeng Xu Ph.D.  Member of the Reconfigurable Computing Group Supervisor Prof. Russell Tessier University of Massachusetts Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 302 Knowles Engineering Building Amherst, MA 01003 Tel:       (413) 461-6288 Email:   wfxu74123@gmail.com URL: http://www-unix.ecs.umass.edu/~wxu/ Resume (pdf) (word)

I received my M.S. and B.S. from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R.China

• Digital system design and prototyping using FPGAs. 

• Compiler-assisted fault tolerance for FPGAs.

• Compiler optimization for VLIW processors.

• Spill Reduction for Embedded VLIW Processors, June 2005 - May 2007.

• Path Delay Fault Testing for LUT-based FPGAs, Feb. 2004 - May 2005.

• Adaptive Fault Recovery for Networked FPGAs, Feb. 2002 - May 2003.

• Energy-aware Active Smart Card, Sep. 2001 - Jan. 2002.

• FPGA designer, M/A-COM, Lowell, MA, June 2003 - Jan. 2004.

• FPGA designer, Bell Labs, Shanghai, P.R.China, Sep. 2000 - March 2001.

• Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fall 2005.

• Computer Systems Lab II, Spring 2002.

• VLSI Design Principles, Fall 2001.

• W.Xu and R.Tessier, “Tetris-XL: A Performance-Driven Spill Reduction Technique for Embedded VLIW Processors,” submitted to ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization.

• W.Xu and R.Tessier, "Tetris: A New Register Pressure Control Technique for VLIW Processors," in ACM Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, pp. 113-122, June 2007. (pdf)

• P.Menon, W.Xu and R.Tessier, "Design-Specific Path Delay Testing in Lookup Table-based FPGAs," IEEE Transactions on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 867-877, May 2006. (pdf)

• R.Tessier, D.Jasinski, A.Maheshwari, A.Natarajan, W.Xu and W. Burleson, "An Energy-Aware Active Smart Card," IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 1190-1199, October 2005. (pdf)

• W.Xu, R.Ramanarayanan and R.Tessier, "Adaptive Fault Recovery for Networked Reconfigurable Systems," in IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, pp. 143-153, April 2003. (pdf)