Dr. Michaela Amoo
Assistant Professor, Howard University
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.