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ERDAL ORUKLU Ph.D.

Dr. Oruklu's research activities in are in the following areas:

  1. System-on-Chip design and reconfigurable Logic
    • System architecture development for real-time signal processing and imaging applications
    • Run-time (partial) reconfigurable architecture research
    • Hardware/software codesign methodology utilizing FPGA devices to accelerate the development process
    • Multiprocessor/multicore system design for multi-tasking using embedded processors
    • Network-on-Chip hardware topologies and polymorphic computing
    • Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) based parallel processing architectures
    • High -Level Synthesis (HSL) using hardware C compilers
    • Video processing platform development on FPGAs
  2. VLSI architectures for high speed computer arithmetic
    • Decimal arithmetic unit design with fast signed-digit architectures
    • Multi-operand adders using flagged constant addition
    • Scalable, large matrix multiplication architectures
    • Hardware efficient implementation of Fast Fourier Transform
    • QR factorization using unified division, square root, and inverse square root hardware
  3. Signal processing and ultrasonic imaging applications
    • Real-time ultrasonic sensor systems for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) applications
    • Ultrasonic flaw detection algorithms with split-spectrum processing using order statistics and neural networks
    • Neural networks for microstructure evaluation of materials using ultrasound
    • Signal classification for the ultrasonic imaging of multilayered and composite materials
    • Statistical signal processing for target detection
    • Chirplet transform algorithms for ultrasonic denoising and data compression.
    • Multi-resolution signal decomposition based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and adaptive thresholding for denoising algorithms
    • Robust 3D ultrasonic compression algorithms based on non-uniform DWT implementation
    • Hardware/software codesign of a robust embedded computing engine for ultrasonic imaging applications using FPGAs
  4. Sensor technology
    • Integration of sensors, real-time embedded processing, and network technologies
    • Wireless sensor networks
    • Network integration and sensor infrastructure
    • Real-time video & image processing for security / control / surveillance applications

We gratefully acknowledge the support and collaboration of our ASIC and FPGA design and development partners: