Milos D. Ercegovac Professor 4731H Boelter Hall 310-825-5414 310-825-2273 (Fax) milos@cs.ucla.edu

General Research areas: Courses: Computer arithmetic Digital design Reconfigurable and application-specific architectures RESEARCH LAB CS M51A Introduction to Digital Systems (Fall 2007) CS151C Digital Design (Winter 2008) CS252A Arithmetic Processors and Algorithms (Winter 2008) CS259 Special Topics in Application-Specific Architectures Short biography: Professor Ercegovac earned his PhD ('75) and MS ('72) in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and BS in electrical engineering ('65) from the University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. He specializes in research and teaching in digital arithmetic, digital design, and computer system architecture. His recent research is in the areas of arithmetic design for low power and for field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). His research contributions have been extensively published in journals and conference proceedings. He is a coauthor of two textbooks on digital design and of a monograph and a book in the area of digital arithmetic. Dr. Ercegovac has been involved in organizing the IEEE Symposia on Computer Arithmetic since 1978. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers and as a subject area editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Dr. Ercegovac is a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM. Curriculum Vitae [CV.pdf] Current Research   Arithmetic algorithms with short-precision operators Arithmetic algorithms for complex numbers Variable-precision arithmetic and data precision-depedent design Low power arithmetic Application-specific arithmetic algorithms (for Bayesian networks, graphics engines, cryptography) Arithmetic for FPGA implementations and mapping tools Recent Publications   Complex Square Root with Operand Prescaling. M.D. Ercegovac and J.-M. Muller, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, 2007. The Art of Deception: Adaptive Precision Reduction for Area Efficient Physics Acceleration. T.Y. Yeh, P. Faloutsos, M.D. Ercegovac, S.J. Patel, and G. Reinman. International Symposium on Microarchitectures, MICRO-07, 2007. On Digit-by-Digit Methods for Computing of Certain Functions. M.D. Ercegovac. Proc. 41st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, pp. xx,  2007. ISA Extensions for Online Floating-Point Addition. P. Dormiani and M.D. Ercegovac. Proc. SPIE on Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations XII,  pp. xx, 2007. Complex Multiply-Add and  Other Related Operators. M.D. Ercegovac and J.-M. Muller. Proc. SPIE on Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations XII,  pp. xxx, 2007. A Hardware-Oriented Method for Evaluating Complex Polynomials. M.D. Ercegovac and J.-M. Muller. IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, pp. xx-xx,  2007 High-Radix Logarithm with Selection by Rounding: Algorithm and Implementation. J.-A. Pineiro, M.D. Ercegovac. and J.D. Bruguera, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Vol.40, pp.109-123, 2005. High-Performance Low-Power Left-to-Right Array Multiplier Design. Z. Huang and M.D. Ercegovac, IEEE Trans. Computers, 54(3):272-283, 2005. Algorithm and Architecture for Logarithm, Exponential, and Powering Computation. J.-A. Pineiro, M.D. Ercegovac, and J.D. Bruguera, IEEE Trans. Computers, 53(9):1085-1096, 2004. All Publications - see CV Recent talk: Omnipresence of Tesla’s Work and Ideas Books Digital Arithmetic, M.D. Ercegovac and T. Lang, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers - An Imprint of Elsevier Science, 2004 Introduction to Digital Systems, M.D. Ercegovac, T. Lang, and J.H. Moreno, Wiley and Sons, 1998. Division and Square Root: Digit-Recurrence Algorithms and Implementations, M.D. Ercegovac and T. Lang, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Digital Systems and Hardware/Firmware Algorithms, M.D. Ercegovac and T. Lang, Wiley and Sons, 1985.

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Prof. Tomas Lang, ECE Department, University of California, Irvine Dr. Jean-Michel Muller, LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France Prof. Jean-Claude Bajard, Laboratoire d'Informatique, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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