A team of students from the Politecnico di Milano, supervised by Davide Conficconi, researcher at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, was awarded in the ‘student’ category during the 10th edition of the international AMD Open Hardware competition.
The AMD Open Hardware is an annual design competition organised by the AMD University Program that gives university students the opportunity to showcase their technical and creative skills with adaptive compute technology.
The team, consisting of students Giacomo Brunetta and Francesco Santambrogio, participated in the competition with the project From FPGA to AI Engine: Beyond Mutual Information Limits. The project aims to improve the efficiency of calculations for image registration in the biomedical field by exploiting a new heterogeneous architecture consisting of FPGA and AI Engine.
The students participated in the competition in the context of the High Performance Processors and Systems course taught by Prof. Marco Domenico Santambrogio for the joint MSc degree programme in Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering and Management Engineering with the University of Illinois Chicago.