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Impulse Accelerated Technologies

Kirkland

http://www.ImpulseAccelerated.com About Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc. Impulse Accelerated Technologies specializes in software-to-hardware compilation and verification tools. The Impulse CoDeveloper tools include C-to-FPGA optimization and hardware generation capabilities that are fully compatible with standard C development environments, and with widely-used FPGA design tools. Impulse products are used worldwide for applications that include embedded systems, video and image processing, digital signal processing, security, communications and high performance, FPGA-accelerated computing. For more information about Impulse and its products and services, visit www.ImpulseAccelerated.com or call 425-605-9543.

Research & Technology Development (RTD) Award: Phase I Project Title: “Application and Benchmarking of Impulse C Technology to Medical Imaging Tasks” Research Partner: Scott Hauck, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington Project Began: 2008 Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc., a Kirkland-based developer of software-to-hardware tools, is working with the University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering to create a research and development tool for the medical image processing community. UW will receive $100,000 in Phase I Research and Technology Development funding from Washington Technology Center and $20,000 from Impulse for the project titled “Application and Benchmarking of Impulse C Technology to Medical Imaging Tasks.” Medical image processing is an important part of modern healthcare for analyzing internal anatomy and physiology. Imaging technology can help doctors diagnose diseases, optimize therapies and reduce the need for surgeries. Because it requires a great deal of computing resources to generate three-dimensional images from multiple scanning sources, medical imaging represents a significant computing challenge. In this Phase I project, UW Associate Professor Scott Hauck and Impulse plan to extend and customize the company’s CoDeveloper™ C-to-FPGA technology in support of medical imaging applications. The resulting software-to-hardware development system could make it easier for scientists and engineers to deploy high-performance medical image processing systems. These technical advancements to the Impulse tools could ultimately make medical imaging a faster and more accurate technology.				“We are excited to be working with Professor Hauck and his team to improve future healthcare. Hardware acceleration is a proven way to increase the processing throughput for medical imaging, and our combined research efforts will allow researchers to more quickly develop and deploy hardware-accelerated imaging systems.” David Pellerin, Co-founder and CEO, Impulse "I am pleased with the quality of these research and development partnerships. These funds are clearly encouraging work with enormous potential to provide good jobs. Long-term, medical imaging could result in much better patient outcomes, substituting for expensive and risky surgery." State Rep. Deb Eddy (D-Kirkland) “Congratulations to Impulse Accelerated Technologies on winning a competitive grant with the University of Washington. Their joint technology development maximizes the state’s investment in our research institutions and has potential for significant impact and job creation in Washington.” State Rep. Ross Hunter (D-Medina)

Research & Technology Development (RTD) Award: Phase I

Research Partner: Carl Ebeling, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

Project Began: 2004

This project will focus on developing key applications and creating additional hardware and software interfaces for a new set of design tools, specifically compilers, optimizers, and debuggers that allow software applications expressed in high-level languages to be compiled to Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). The commercial availability of these tools will benefit applications used in imaging, biomedical research, data communication, geophysics, data encryption, and signal processing.