Background Prof. Mike Wirthlin received his PhD from BYU in 1997. After completing his degree, he worked as a staff engineeer in the Architecture Laboratory at National Semiconductor in Santa Clara, California. He returned to BYU in 1999 to join the faculty and has served on the faculty ever since.

Research Professor Wirthlin's research interests are in the area of configurable computing with a special interest in high-reliabile configurable systems and high-level synthesis targeting application-specific architectures. He has worked on a variety of projects investigating and demonstrating applications, tools, and architectures for reconfigurable systems.

Professional He has been a consultant to both government and industry on FPGA design, configurable computing and high-reliable configurable systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Computer Society, and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).