Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Regional Initiatives

Cible Grant from Région Rhône-Alpes

Participants : Nicolas Brisebarre, Claude-Pierre Jeannerod, Mioara Joldeş, Jingyan Jourdan-Lu, Jean-Michel Muller, Nathalie Revol, Gilles Villard.

Since October 2008, we have obtained a 3-year grant from Région Rhône-Alpes. That grant has funded a PhD student, Mioara Joldeş, who defended her PhD thesis on September 26, 2011. The project consists in automating as much as possible the generation of code for approximating functions. Instead of calling functions from libraries, we wish to elaborate approximations at compile-time, in order to be able to directly approximate compound functions, or to take into account some information (typically, input range information) that might be available at that time. In this project, we collaborate with the STMicroelectronics' Compilation Expertise Center in Grenoble (C. Bertin, H. Knochel, and C. Monat). STMicroelectronics is funding another PhD grant on these themes.