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Office:
333 Photonics Center Building
8 Saint Mary's Street
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 353-9850
herbordt (at) bu.edu

Lab:
340 Photonics Center Building
8 Saint Mary's Street
Boston MA 02215
(617) 353-2840
www.bu.edu/caadlab

Office Hours: MW 3-5

 

 

Martin Herbordt
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical &
Computer Engineering
Boston University

 
My research interests are in computer architecture, especially in finding ways to accelerate applications not optimally served by main-stream processors. This has lead me to fascinating applications such as computer vision, weather and climate modeling, and lately, bioinformatics and computational biology. Early on I concentrated on high-end ASIC-based solutions (e.g. with the IUA project); later, on switching fabrics for connecting off-the-shelf components or IP; and most recently on using the incredible, but largely untapped, computation capability of configurable circuits (FPGAs). Always critical to my research has been programmability -- at various times this has lead to work in portable programming languages; lately I've been more involved in design automation (EDA), particularly in creating an environment that allows application programmers to use transparently coprocessors based on FPGAs.
 

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