Reiner Hartenstein

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Reiner Hartenstein (born December 18, 1934 in Berlin-Spandau ) is a German computer scientist . Hartenstein is regarded worldwide as a pioneer of hardware description languages , reconfigurable computing and reconfigurable supercomputing .

Life

Hartenstein studied communications engineering at the former University of Karlsruhe from 1954 to 1959 , where he completed his diploma thesis with Professor Karl Steinbuch . 1960–1965 he was project manager at the Laboratory for Electronics of the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center (today part of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), where he developed automation and data acquisition computer systems for experiments in high-energy physics and for the instrumentation of nuclear reactors. In 1965 he moved to the University of Karlsruhe, where he worked as an employee of Professor Karl Steinbuch in the field of image processing and automatic character recognition and received his doctorate in 1969. He had been a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe since 1974, before he was appointed full professor at the University of Kaiserslautern in 1977 , where he taught the design of integrated circuits ( VLSI design) and its automation and until his retirement in 2003 as director of the Laboratory for Reconfigurable Computing ( Xputer Lab). In 1981 Reiner Hartenstein was visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley . His work in the field of hardware description languages and reconfigurable computing as well as configware / software co-compilation are considered pioneering achievements. Prof. Viktor Prasanna from the University of Southern California called him “ The father of Reconfigurable Computing ” .

Hartenstein is considered to be the initiator of the methodology of the supersystolic array for coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures, as well as the anti-machine paradigm (Kress / Kung machine paradigm) for reconfigurable, non-command current-driven parallel computers that emerged from the Xputer project. Thanks to reconfigurable computing , the disruptive technology of the anti-machine is the counterpart to the instruction stream-driven Von Neumann machine . Via software to Configware Migration, this is the basis of new types of reconfigurable supercomputer architectures that improve performance by two and sometimes more orders of magnitude compared to classic supercomputers , while at the same time reducing building space requirements and electricity bills by more than an order of magnitude. Reiner Hartenstein is credited with coining the terms Configware, Domino notation , Reconfigurable Computing Paradox and Structured hardware design .

Hartenstein is the founder of the EIS project, which was funded by the BMFT during the 1980s, to introduce microelectronics into academic teaching, in which 20 universities in the Federal Republic participated. That's why Lynn Conway called it the “ German Carver Mead ”. The EIS project is the forerunner of the EUROCHIP organization funded by the European Union . Hartenstein is the founder of the world's first annual international workshop series PATMOS on "low-power" microelectronic design. He is also co-founder of the world's first and now largest annual international conference series FPL on FPGAs and reconfigurable computing and their applications. Despite his retirement, he is still very active and enjoys supervising doctoral students and being repeatedly invited to lectures or keynote addresses as a speaker.

Works

Hartenstein has published over 400 technical articles and 14 books, including a. the books:

  • 1977: Fundamentals of Structured Hardware Design. A Design Language Approach at Register Transfer Language (Bestseller)
  • 1996: No desire for high tech. Job export - just because wages are too high?

Prizes and awards

  • IEEE life fellow
  • FPL fellow
  • IFIP silver core
  • various “ best paper awards ” and “ best presentation awards ” from international conferences.

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personal data
SURNAME Hartenstein, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist, communications engineer and information theorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin- Spandau