Acknowledgements

We would like to thank many industrial partners for sponsoring our research over the years. The recent contributions in the past two years are from the following companies:

• Altera
• Broadcom Foundations
• IBM
• Intel
• Mentor Graphics
• Synopsys
• Xilinx

We also would like to thank many industrial partners for their equipment and software donations to our research group over the years. The recent donations in 2012 include:

Xilinx

We have received multiple units of Xilinx Virtex-6 XUP boards, Zynq boards and Zed boards under the Xilinx University Program. These boards are being used by multiple students under the CDSC project.

Intel

We received multiple units of Westmere-EP CPUs from Intel as part of Intel Labs University Programs Office and used them to upgrade our servers from Nehalem Xeons to Westmere-EP Xeons. This provided a speed increase to our current systems.