Luca Carloni

Carloni has made research contributions across all main aspects of engineering these computing platforms, including system architecture, hardware design, software programming, networking, power management, rapid prototyping, system-level design methodologies, and computer-aided design (CAD) tools.

Most recently, Carloni has proposed and developed Embedded Scalable Platforms (ESP) as a novel approach to help engineering teams cope with the complexity challenges of designing and programming billion-transistor system-on-chip architectures, which integrate an increasing number of general-purpose processor cores and specialized hardware accelerators.  ESP combines an architecture and a methodology. The flexible socketed architecture simplifies the integration of heterogeneous components by balancing regularity and specialization and eases the realization of prototypes with Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) technologies. The companion methodology improves the productivity and collaboration among software programmers and hardware engineers, by raising the level of abstraction to system-level design, promoting the use of high-level synthesis, and enabling the reuse of predesigned components. Carloni’s research has informed his teaching activities at Columbia, particularly with the development of the two new courses “System-on-Chip Platforms” and “Embedded Scalable Platforms.”

Carloni received a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy in 1995, an MS in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997, and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. In 2004, he joined the faculty of Columbia Engineering. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.