The School
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
James
Hamblen - Professor
Dr. James O.
Hamblen, a professor in the computer engineering area, joined the Georgia Tech
Faculty in 1984 after graduating with his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from
Georgia Tech. His other degrees include an M.S.E.E. from Purdue University and
a B.E.E. from Georgia Tech.
Prior to returning
to Georgia Tech to work on his Ph.D., he worked several years in industry.
While working on his M.S.E.E. degree he was employed by Wescom Inc. in Chicago,
Illinois where he worked on the design of a fault-tolerant multiprocessor PBX
system. Subsequently, he worked as a systems analyst for Texas Instruments in
Austin, Texas, and as a senior engineer for Martin Marietta Corporation in
Denver, Colorado. At Texas Instruments, he was involved in the design of the
TMS9900 microprocessor development system. The TMS9900 was one of the world’s
first 16-bit microprocessors. At Martin Marietta, he was a senior engineer in
the software research and development section where he worked on computer
systems for satellites and spacecraft. In 1999, he was a visiting faculty
member at Intel in Phoenix, AZ. He teaches courses in digital hardware,
computer architecture, operating systems, and embedded systems design.
In 2004, by a vote
of the senior class in electrical and computer engineering, Professor Hamblen
was awarded the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2006, Professor
Hamblen received Georgia Tech’s campus wide Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard
Outstanding Teacher Award. At Georgia Tech, Professor Hamblen has taught over
six thousand students in his classes, and he has obtained several million
dollars of equipment donations and grants from industry to help equip the
computer engineering instructional laboratories. Professor Hamblen's current
research interests include rapid prototyping with FPGAs, embedded systems,
computer architecture, continuous system simulation, and SoPC design. He has
had funded research projects and grants from NSF, the Ballistic Missile Defense
Advanced Technology Center, IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, the US Army,
the US Air Force, Intel, Cypress Semiconductor, and Microsoft.
Instructional Materials
for Students
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ECE 4180 Embedded Systems Design
(To avoid problems playing the movie, download file first)
- Student Design
Project Web Pages
- Free
Electronic version of Textbook (or in
a DVD *.iso file format)
ECE/CS 6100/4100 Advanced
Computer Architecture
ECE 3710 Circuits and
Electronics
ECE 3055 Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
ECE 2030 Introduction to Computer Engineering
ECE 2031 Digital Design Laboratory
- ALTERA
UP1 & UP2 FPGA Board Information and Demos
- ALTERA UP3 FPGA Board
Information and Demos
- ALTERA DE2 FPGA Board
Information and Demos
Judging the recent Imagine
Cup Embedded Challenge Student Design Contest Finals at the Louvre, a year
earlier in Seoul,
The
embedded challenge student design contest awards ceremony at the Pyramids of Giza,
And
more recently the embedded challenge student demo booth area at the Warsaw
opera house.
Two of
Georgia Tech’s Student Teams at the WESC Design Contest Finals in Seattle.
Recent Student mbed Projects from ECE 4180 BOOKS Introduction
to Embedded Systems using Windows Embedded CE – Second Edition, J. Hamblen,
Microsoft, June 2008. Also available in German,
Chinese, Korean, and Japanese translations. Rapid
Prototyping of Digital Systems - SoPC Edition, J. Hamblen, T. Hall,
and M. Furman, Springer, August 2007. Introduction
to Embedded Systems using Windows Embedded CE, J. Hamblen,
Microsoft, June 2007. “FPGAs for Rapid Prototyping,” J. Hamblen, a
chapter in Digital
Design and Fabrication, 35 pages, V. Oklobzija editor, CRC Press,
November 2007. Rapid
Prototyping of Digital Systems - Quartus Edition, J. Hamblen, T. Hall,
and M. Furman, Springer, August 2005. Rapid
Prototyping of Digital Systems - Second Edition, J. Hamblen and M.
Furman, Kluwer Academic Publishers, August 2001. “FPGAs for Rapid Prototyping,” J. Hamblen, a
chapter in The
Computer Engineering Handbook, 30 pages, V. Oklobzija editor, CRC
Press, December 2001. Rapid
Prototyping of Digital Systems, J. Hamblen and M. Furman, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, August 1999. Introduction to Microprogramming, Text and Courseware,
Hamblen, J. O. and Parker, A., ISBN 0-89512-203-0, Dallas: Texas Instruments,
1989. 
Selected Publications
