Category of Study: Architecture, CAD and Novel Applications for Field Programmable Chips and Systems

Office:  Room 252, Essex Hall

Email: mkhalid@uwindsor.ca

Telephone: (519) 253-3000 extension 2611

Fax:  (519) 971-3695

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Education:
B.E. (Electronics and Communication Engineering)(Osmania University, Hyderabad, India), M.S.E.E. (Computer Engineering) (Louisiana State University, U.S.A.), Ph.D. (Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada)

Research Interests:

• Architectures and CAD tools for rapid prototyping, verification acceleration and reconfigurable computing
• Physical design automation for VLSI and FPGA’s, timing analysis and timing-driven layout

Teaching Interests
Areas of Specialization
Architecture and CAD for rapid prototyping, verification acceleration and reconfigurable computing, CAD for VLSI and FPGA’s, Digital System Design, Hardware Description Languages

Areas of Competence
Computer Architecture and organization, data structures and algorithms, computer programming, microprocessors

Publications:

Journal Papers (most recent):
Linlin Zhang, Virginie Fresse, Mohammed Khalid, Dominique Houzet and Anne-Claire Legrand, Evaluation and Design Space Exploration of a Time-Division Multiplexed NoC on FPGA for Multispectral Image Data Communication, EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, Accepted for publication, November 17, 2009.

Anderson, Ian, D.; Khalid, Mohammed, A., SCBuild: A CAD Tool for Design Space Exploration of Embedded CPU Cores for FPGAs, IET Computers and Digital Techniques, 3(1), 24-32, January 2009.

Tong, Jason, G; Khalid, Mohammed, A., Profiling Tools for FPGA-Based Embedded Systems: Survey and Quantitative Comparison, Journal of Computers, Academy Publisher, 3(6), 1-14, June 2008.

Xu, Yonghong; Khalid, Mohammed, A Fast and Effective Timing-Driven Placement Tool for FPGAs, Journal of Circuits,Systems and Computers, World Scientific, 17(4), 663-673, August 2008.

Banovic, Kevin; Abdel-Raheem, Esam; Khalid, Mohammed, Computationally Efficient Methods for Blind Decision Feedback Equalization of QAM Signals, AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communication, 62(5), 474-485, May 2008.

Banovic, Kevin; Khalid, Mohammed; Abdel-Raheem, Esam, A Configurable Fractionally-Spaced Blind Equalizer for QAM Demodulators, Digital Signal Processing, 17(6), 1071-1088, November, 2007.

Lee, Raymond; Abdel-Raheem, Esam; Khalid, Mohammed A. S., Computationally-Efficient DNLMS-Based Adaptive Algorithms for Echo Cancellation Application, Journal of Communication, 1(7), 1-8, November 2006.

Banovic, Kevin; Abdel-Raheem, Esam; Khalid, Mohammed A. S., A Novel Radius-Adjusted Approach for Blind Adaptive Equalization, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 13(1), 37-40, January 2006.

Patents:
M. A. S. Khalid and J. Rose, “Multi-logic Device Systems Having Partial Crossbar and Direct Interconnection Architectures,” U.S. Patent #6604230, filed Feb. 9, 1999, issued August 5, 2003.

Conference Papers (most recent):
Brugge, Mike; Khalid, Mohammed, Design and Evaluation of a Parameterizable NoC Router for FPGAs, 18th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on FPGAs, FPGA 2010, Feb. 21-23, 2010, Monterey, California, Accepted for Presentation and Publication, Nov. 14, 2009.

Le, Thuan; Khalid, Mohammed, NoC Prototyping on FPGAs: A Case Study Using an Image Processing Benchmark, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, pp. 441-445, June 2009 .

Al Rayahi, Omar; Khalid, Mohammed, UWindsor Nios II: A Soft-Core Processor for Design Space Exploration, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, pp. 451-457, June 2009.

Zhang, Linlin; Fresse, Virginie; Khalid, Mohammed; Houzet, Dominique, Evaluation of NoC Dedicated to Multispectral Image Data Communication, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Signals Circuits and Systems, July 2009.

Zhang, Linlin; Fresse, Virginie; Legrand, Anne-Claire; Khalid, Mohammed, GALS Noc Architectures on FPGA Dedicated to Multispectral Image Applications, Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference, 2009, In Press.

Kevin Banovic, Mohammed A. S. Khalid, and Esam Abdel-Raheem, FPGA Implementation of Fractionally-Spaced Complex Blind Adaptive Equalizer, Proc. of IEEE Int. Symp. On Signal processing and Information Tech. (ISSPIT), 2007.

Tong, Jason, G; Khalid, Mohammed, A.S., A Comparison of Profiling Tools for FPGA-Based Embedded Systems, Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Electrical and computer Engineering, 2007.

Yazdanshenas, Amir; Khalid, Mohammed, A New Scheduling Algorithm for Processor-Based Logic Emulation Systems, Proceedings of Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2007.

Tong, Jason, G; Khalid, Mohammed, A.S., Profiling CAD Tools: A Proposed Classification, International Conference on Microelectronics, 2007.
 

Professional Activities:

• Served on the program committee of IEEE sponsored Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW) from 1999 to 2004.
• Served as a reviewer for IEEE Trans. on CAD, IEEE Trans. on VLSI, and several other IEEE/ACM sponsored conferences and workshops.
• Served as a Session Chair in RAW’99 and FPL’2005.
• Served as a reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong.
• Served as Conference General Chair for 2009 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, held at Windsor, Ontario, Canada from June 7 to 9, 2009.