PURPOSE OF THE SCHOOL

The aim of school is to introduce physicists, engineers, computer scientists and other scientists to FPGA design methodologies focusing applications in scientific instrumentation. The school will represent a unique opportunity for many of the participants to gain skills for designing and developing complete high performance systems for scientific applications at low cost. Since the main barrier to exploit this technology is knowledge, this school will contribute to generate know how through hands-on experimental activities with state of the art hardware and software. The participants will count on international highly qualified lecturers and laboratory assistants who are selected professionals from academy, research centers and industry. This will contribute to provide a balanced perception and deeper understanding about limitations, trends and potentialities of this key technology. The School will contain about 35 hours of lectures and 35 hours of tutorials and assisted hands on laboratory sessions. During the last three days of the school, the selected applicants will also participate to the first regional conference on advanced instrumentation (CRIA 2014). It is expected to enhance the capabilities of researchers, teachers, and engineers in exploiting cost-effective programmable logic devices for their instrumentation needs and R&D for scientific and academic purposes. By promoting networking and open international collaborations and by stimulating a community of experimental scientists with the necessary skills and willingness to contribute to collaborative open hardware/software research projects, this school will contribute to alleviate the lack of stimuli and isolation that typically afflicts many professionals from developing countries. 

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