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Dr. Issam Damaj, Assistant Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, with his collaborators
from Lebanese American University (Dr. Ramzi Harati
and Miss Safaa Kasbah), published a paper in the
IAEng International Multi Conference of Engineers
and Computer Scientists (IMECS), Hong Kong, China,
21-23 March, 2007. The paper title is “The
Successive Over-Relaxation Method in Reconfigurable
Hardware”. The published paper comes
as an outcome for the collaborative research project
on “High-Speed Hardware Systems for Computationally
Intensive Applications”. This project
has been running since 2004 with collaborators
from the Lebanese American University and Hariri
Canadian University in Lebanon. Dr. Damaj Stated
that "Technically, this paper presents the first
hardware implementation of the Successive Over-Relaxation
(SOR) method for the solution of a 2D Poisson equation.
Handel-C was used as, a high level language for
the implementation of algorithms on hardware, to
code and implement designs which are mapped onto
high-performance Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(FPGAs), such as, Virtex II Pro, Altera Stratix,
and Spartan3L".
The IMECS 2007 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAEng),
a non-profit international association for engineers and computer scientists.
The conference has the focus on frontier topics in theoretical and applied engineering
and computer science subjects. The IMECS conferences serve as good platforms
for the entire engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange
ideas. IMECS committees have been formed with over two hundred conference committee
members who are mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads,
professors, and research scientists from over 20 countries. The last IMECS 2006
attracted more than four hundred participants from over 30 countries.
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