A number of institutions and companies made and is making possible some research experiments and some of the projects listed below. João Cardoso would like to acknowledge the financial support of the institutions and companies (FCT, Grices/CNPq, CRUP/DAAD, PT-Inovação), the donations by Xilinx of the ISE and EDK Software and FPGA boards, the donations of the XPP Development Environment by PACT XPP Technologies, and the donation of smartphones by Nokia, Finland.

[2008-2009] UPCASE: User-Programmable Context-Aware Services

Funded by the PT-Inovação

Starting date: February, 2008; Duration: 1 year; Participant Institutions: PT-Inovação, IST/INESC-ID, Lisbon

Participants: Paulo Chainho (PT-Inovação), José Duarte (PT-Inovação), João M. P. Cardoso (IST/INESC-ID), Diogo Ferreira (IST), Pedro Diniz (IST/INESC-ID)

[2007-2010] COBAYA: Closing the compilation gap between algorithms and coarse-grained reconfigurable array architectures

Funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT),

Starting date: November 1, 2007; Duration: 3 years; Participant Institutions: INESC-ID, Lisbon

Project leader: João M. P. Cardoso ([email protected])

[2007-2010] AMADEUS: Aspects and compiler optimizations for MATLAB system development

Funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT),

Starting date: December 1, 2007; Duration: 3 years; Participant Institutions: INESC-ID, Lisbon, University of Minho, New University of Lisbon, Deimos Eng.ª SA

Project leader: João M. P. Cardoso ([email protected])

[2007-2009] A Hardware/Software Codesign Environment targeting FPGA-based Platforms in Mobile Robotics - Part II

Funded by GRICES/CNPq 2005-2006

Collaboration:

· Portugal: João M. P. Cardoso, Pedro C. Diniz

· Brazil: José Carlos Maldonado, Eduardo Marques, Marcio Merino Fernandes, Ricardo Ferreira, Denis Wolf

Participant Institutions:

· INESC-ID, Lisbon, Rua Alves Redon N.9, 1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal

· Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Departamento de Ciências de Computação e Estatística, São Carlos, Caixa Postal 668 – 13560-970 São Carlos – SP – Brasil

[2007-] STIGMA: High-Performance STrInG-Matching Architectures

Starting date: 2007; Duration: - ; Participant Institutions: INESC-ID, Lisbon

Project members: João M. P. Cardoso ([email protected]), and João Bispo

[2006-2008] Architecture and Compilation Exploration for a Dynamically Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (ACER)

Funded by CRUP/DAAD 2006-2007

Collaboration: Jürgen Becker, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany

Participant Institutions:

· Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Institut fuer Technik der Informationsverarbeitung – ITIV, Department of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

· INESC-ID, Lisbon, Rua Alves Redon N.9, 1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal

· Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Campus de Gambelas, 8000-117 Faro, Portugal

[2005-2007] A Hardware/Software Codesign Environment targeting FPGA-based Platforms in Mobile Robotics – Part I

Funded by GRICES/CNPq 2005-2006

Collaboration:

· Portugal: João M. P. Cardoso, Pedro C. Diniz

· Brazil: José Carlos Maldonado, Eduardo Marques, Marcio Merino Fernandes, Ricardo Ferreira, Denis Wolf

Participant Institutions:

· INESC-ID, Lisbon, Rua Alves Redon N.9, 1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal

· Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Departamento de Ciências de Computação e Estatística, São Carlos, Caixa Postal 668 – 13560-970 São Carlos – SP – Brasil

[2004-2007] CHIADO - Compilation of High-Level Computationally Intensive Algorithms to Dynamically Reconfigurable COmputing Systems

Funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), POSI and FEDER, POSI/CHS/48018/2002

Starting date: January 5, 2004; Duration: 3 years; Participant Institutions: University of Algarve and INESC-ID, Lisbon

Project leader: João M. P. Cardoso ([email protected])

Collaboration as a consultant: Pedro C. Diniz (University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute)

[2005-2007] A Hardware/Software Codesign Environment targeting FPGA-based Platforms in Mobile Robotics

Funded by GRICES/CNPq 2005-2006

Collaboration:

· Portugal: João M. P. Cardoso, João Lima

· Brazil: José Carlos Maldonado, Eduardo Marques, Marcio Merino Fernandes, Eduardo do Valle Simoes, Márcio Eduardo Delamaro, Auri Marcelo Rizzo Vincenzi

Participant Institutions:

· Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Campus de Gambelas, 8000-117 Faro, Portugal

· Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Departamento de Ciências de Computação e Estatística, São Carlos, Caixa Postal 668 – 13560-970 São Carlos – SP – Brasil

[2004-2006] Exploration and Mapping Methods for Reconfigurable Data-Driven Array Architectures

Collaboration: Ricardo F. Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570 000, Brazil

Participant Institutions:

· Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570 000, Brazil

· Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Campus de Gambelas, 8000-117 Faro, Portugal

· INESC-ID, Lisboa