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Brock J. LaMeres, Ph.D., P.E.
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Montana State University |
Background
Dr. LaMeres joined the Montana State ECE faculty in July of 2006. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder in December of 2005. Prior to coming to MSU, Dr. LaMeres worked as an R&D engineer for Agilent Technologies in Colorado Springs, CO from 1999 to 2006. LaMeres was a hardware design engineer in the Logic Analysis R&D lab. He designed acquisition hardware for the 16910/11/12 and 16950 Logic Analyzer systems in addition to developing a variety of probing solutions.
Dr. LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of digital systems. LaMeres' research group studies effective hardware/software partitioning using reprogrammable fabrics. This work involves exploiting the flexibility of modern FPGAs to optimize the performance of a digital system depending on the application need (i.e., performance, power, size, or fault tolerance). Exploiting reprogrammable hardware fabrics enables such implementation approaches as single-chip hardware accelerated processors, real-time scalable parallel processing, and dynamic reconfigurable computing. Dr. LaMeres' team is investigating the trade-off space between computation in custom hardware, soft processing cores, and hybrid approaches. LaMeres' research is sponsored by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Montana Space Grant Consortium, the National Space Grant Consortium, and the Office of Naval Research.
Dr. LaMeres received his MSEE from the University of Colorado in 2001 and his BSEE from Montana State University in 1998.
He has published over 50 papers in the area of high speed digital systems and has been granted 13 US patents in the area of digital signal propagation.
LaMeres is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Registered Professional Engineer in the States of Montana and Colorado. He serves as an editor for the Active and Passive Components (APEC) journal in addition to being on the Technical Program Committee for DesignCon.
Dr. LaMeres is a member of CMPT and IEEE-CS and is the faculty advisor of the student branch of IEEE at MSU.
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