Prof. Dirk Koch

Heidelberg University

Dirk Koch leads the Novel Computing Technologies group at Heidelberg University. Before, he worked in the Advanced Processor Technologies Group at the University of Manchester, the University of Oslo, UBC Vancouver, and the University of Erlangen Nuremberg. His main research interests include run-time reconfigurable systems based on FPGAs, embedded systems, computer architecture, VLSI design, and hardware security. Dirk’s group developed the GoAhead tool for implementing partial reconfiguration on FPGAs, the FPGADefender bistream virus scanner, and the FABulous open-source embedded FPGA generation framework. The latter was used to design chips in TSMC and Skywater processes including a memristor (ReRAM) non-volative FPGA. Dirk Koch is the author of the book “Partial Reconfiguration on FPGAs” and a co-editor of the book “FPGAs for Software Programmers”.