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FPL
2009
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Fast critical sections via thread scheduling for FPGA-based multithreaded processors
As FPGA-based systems including soft processors become increasingly common, we are motivated to better understand the architectural trade-offs and improve the efficiency of these...
Martin Labrecque, J. Gregory Steffan
FPGA
2008
ACM
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13 years 6 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
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...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Comprehensive Analysis of OpenMP Applications on Dual-Core Intel Xeon SMPs
Hybrid chip multithreaded SMPs present new challenges as well as new opportunities to maximize performance. Our intention is to discover the optimal operating configuration of suc...
Ryan E. Grant, Ahmad Afsahi
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
A GPU-inspired soft processor for high-throughput acceleration
There is building interest in using FPGAs as accelerators for high-performance computing, but existing systems for programming them are so far inadequate. In this paper we propose...
Jeffrey Kingyens, J. Gregory Steffan