Michaela Amoo

Background

About Michaela Amoo

Professional Interests: Research in the area of hardware engineering, with emphasis on FPGA-based application-specific, floating-point hardware, RTL level design, Microcontroller, Microprocessor, and Micro architectures (μarch), Embedded control, and Systems on Chip (SoCs). • Languages include: VHDL, Assembly(6800/8085/8086 and PIC), Fortran, Python,Matlab. • Tools include: Matlab,ModelSim, Xilinx FPGA parts, ISE Design Suite and Vivado, Synplify,Dime-C,MPLab, Latex, Visio, MS Office, Unix, Sun Solaris, Dos, all Windows OS, Raspberry Pi, Analogue Discovery Current Research: • FPGA-based SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) for autonomous platforms. • FPGA-based non von-Neumann architectures for HPC applications to increase computational power, facilitate massively parallel implementations, and reduce power consumption. • Maintaining accuracy of floating-point hardware throughout multiple levels of calculations, and as data approaches denormalized values, whilst maintaining speed/throughput and constraining area/power consumption. • Programming/implementing complex massively parallel architectures. • Development of libraries of parameterizable, pipelined, floating-point, real and complex, vendor- agnostic, primitives (i.e. adder, subtractor, divider, square-root, multiplier.), optimized for precision and throughput.