Valavan Manohararajah

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Valavan Manohararajah, a Sri Lanka born, Canadian computer scientist with M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Toronto, both under under supervision of Zvonko Vranesic. His research interests include FPGA, placement and routing for FPGAs, high level synthesis and logic synthesis for FPGAs, and abstract games. Concerning computer chess, Valavan Manohararajah is author of the chess program Rajah, as RajahX also subject of his 2001 M.Sc. thesis on parallel alpha-beta search.

=Selected Publications=

1997

 * Valavan Manohararajah (1997). Rajah: The Design of a Chess Program. ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2

2000 ...

 * Valavan Manohararajah (2001). Parallel Alpha-Beta Search on Shared Memory Multiprocessors. M.Sc. thesis, pdf
 * Valavan Manohararajah, Terry P. Borer, Stephen Brown, Zvonko Vranesic (2002). Automatic Partitioning for Improved Placement and Routing in Complex Programmable Logic Devices. FPL 2002
 * Valavan Manohararajah (2005). Area Optimizations in FPGA Architecture and CAD. Ph.D. Thesis, pdf
 * Valavan Manohararajah, Stephen Brown, Zvonko Vranesic (2006). Adaptive FPGAs: High-Level Architecture and a Synthesis Method. FPL 2006, pdf
 * Valavan Manohararajah, Stephen Brown, Zvonko Vranesic (2006). Heuristics for Area Minimization in LUT-Based FPGA Technology Mapping. IEEE Transactions on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 25, No. 11

=Forum Posts=
 * X88 board representations by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, April 17, 1996 » 0x88
 * Quiescence search problems (solved) by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, May 01, 1996 » Quiescence Search, Move Ordering
 * Incoporating chess knowledge in chess programs by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, June 26, 1996
 * Computer Chess Hardware Design by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, March 30, 1997
 * Misinformation about RAJAH in the ICCA by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, April 5, 1997 » Rajah
 * Re: GNU Chess for Pilot? by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, July 09, 1997 » GNU Chess
 * Anyone want to represent Rajah at the WMCCC? by Valavan Manohararajah, rgcc, August 14, 1997

=External Links=
 * A Website by Valavan Manohararajah

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