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FPGA
2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Vector processing as a soft-core CPU accelerator
The currently accepted method of accelerating applications in FPGA soft processor systems is to design a custom hardware accelerator. This paper suggests the alternative approach ...
Jason Yu, Guy Lemieux, Christopher Eagleston
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Rethinking custom ISE identification: a new processor-agnostic method
The last decade has witnessed the emergence of the Application Specific Instruction-set Processor (ASIP) as a viable platform for embedded systems. Extensible ASIPs allow the user...
Ajay K. Verma, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne
CASES
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
VESPA: portable, scalable, and flexible FPGA-based vector processors
While soft processors are increasingly common in FPGAbased embedded systems, it remains a challenge to scale their performance. We propose extending soft processor instruction set...
Peter Yiannacouras, J. Gregory Steffan, Jonathan R...
RTSS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
MCGREP - A Predictable Architecture for Embedded Real-Time Systems
Real-time systems design involves many important choices, including that of the processor. The fastest processors achieve performance by utilizing architectural features that make...
Jack Whitham, Neil C. Audsley
SAMOS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Study of Energy Saving in Customizable Processors
Abstract. Embedded systems are special purpose systems which perform predefined tasks with very specific requirements like high performance, low volume or low power. Most of the ...
Paolo Bonzini, Dilek Harmanci, Laura Pozzi