Changeset 119 for anr/section-6.1.tex

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Feb 9, 2010, 1:02:52 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

coach

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Paul: Minor language modifications.

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• anr/section-6.1.tex (modified) (7 diffs)

anr/section-6.1.tex

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 The CAIRN group is an INRIA - Bretagne Atlantique project and a part of IRISA, UMR
-6074. CAIRN members are affiliated from University of Rennes\~1 or Ecole Normale 
-Supérieure de Cachan. the goal of CAIRN is to study reconfigurable system-on-chip, 
+6074. CAIRN members are affiliated to University of Rennes\~1 or Ecole Normale 
+Supérieure de Cachan. The goal of CAIRN is to study reconfigurable system-on-chip, 
 i.e. hardware systems whose configuration may change before or even during execution. 
-To this end, CAIRN intends to approach reconfigurable architectures from three angles: 
+To this end, CAIRN intends to approach reconfigurable architectures from three
+directions: % angles: 
 the invention of new reconfigurable platforms, the development of associated 
 transformation, compilation and synthesis tools, and the exploration of the interaction 
@@ -36 +37 @@
 Systems-on-Chip together with their basic operating system on the other end.
 
-Currently, the lab contains 124 persons among whom 60 PhD candidates, and runs
+Currently, the lab employs 124 persons among which 60 PhD candidates, and runs
 32 ongoing French/European funded projects.
-Since its creation in 1984, TIMA funded 7 start ups, patented 36 inventions
+Since its creation in 1984, TIMA funded 7 startups, patented 36 inventions
 and had 243 PhD thesis defended.
 
@@ -51 +52 @@
 The Lab-STICC (Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information, 
 de la Communication, et de la Connaissance), is a French CNRS laboratory 
-(UMR 3192) that gathers 4 research centers in the west and south 
-Brittany; from the Universitￜ de Bretagne-Sud (UBS), the Universitￜ de 
+(UMR 3192) that groups 4 research centers in the west and south 
+Brittany: the Universit\'e de Bretagne-Sud (UBS), the Universit\'e de 
 Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), and Telecom Bretagne (ENSTB). 
 \\
@@ -58 +59 @@
 Digital communications, Architectures and circuits (CACS) and Knowledge, 
 information and decision (CID). The Lab-STICC represents a staff of 279 
-people, including 115 researchers and 113 PhD students. 
+peoples, including 115 researchers and 113 PhD students. 
 The scientific production during the last 4 years represents 20 
 books, 200 journal publications, 500 conference publications, 22 
@@ -121 +122 @@
 
 \xilinx is the world leader in the domain of programmable logic circuits (FPGA).
-\xilinx develops in one hand several FPGA architectures (CoolRunner, Spartan and Virtex
+\xilinx develops on one hand several FPGA architectures (CoolRunner, Spartan and Virtex
 families) and in the other hand a software solution allowing exploiting the
 characteristics of these FPGA.
 \parlf
-The tools proposed can allow the designer to describe his architecture from modeling
+The tools proposed allow the designer to describe his architecture from a modeling
 language (VHDL/Verilog) to an optimized architecture implemented to the selected
 technology.
@@ -135 +136 @@
   \item RTL model optimizations.
   \item Inference and generation of optimized macro blocks (Finite states machine, counter).
-  \item Boolean equations generation for randomly logic.
+  \item Boolean equations generation for random logic.
   \item Logical, mapping and timing optimizations.
 \end{itemize}
@@ -141 +142 @@
 The architectures developed by \xilinx offer a collection of technological primitives
 (variable complexity) from simple Boolean generators (LUT) to complex DSP blocks or memory
-and whether configurable processor cores (Pico and MicroBlaze families).
-This kind of architecture allows, thus, the designer to validate different
+and even configurable processor cores (Pico and MicroBlaze families).
+This kind of architecture allows, therefore, the designer to validate different
 hardware/software possibilities in a High Level Synthesis (HLS) framework.
 \parlf