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FPGA
2008
ACM
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A complexity-effective architecture for accelerating full-system multiprocessor simulations using FPGAs
Functional full-system simulators are powerful and versatile research tools for accelerating architectural exploration and advanced software development. Their main shortcoming is...
Eric S. Chung, Eriko Nurvitadhi, James C. Hoe, Bab...
FPGA
2008
ACM
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WireMap: FPGA technology mapping for improved routability
This paper presents a new technology mapper, WireMap. The mapper uses an edge flow heuristic to improve the routability of a mapped design. The heuristic is applied during the ite...
Stephen Jang, Billy Chan, Kevin Chung, Alan Mishch...
FPGA
2008
ACM
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Fpga-based data acquisition system for a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner
: Modern Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are capable of performing complex discrete signal processing algorithms with clock rates of above 100MHz. This combined with FPGAs l...
Michael Haselman, Robert Miyaoka, Thomas K. Lewell...
FPGA
2008
ACM
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Modeling routing demand for early-stage FPGA architecture development
Architecture development for FPGAs has typically been a very empirical discipline, requiring the synthesis of benchmark circuits into candidate architectures. This is difficult to...
Wei Mark Fang, Jonathan Rose
FPGA
2008
ACM
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FPGA interconnect design using logical effort
Logical effort (LE) is a linear technique for modelling the delay of a circuit in a technology independent manner. It offers the potential to simplify delay models for FPGAs and g...
Haile Yu, Yuk Hei Chan, Philip Heng Wai Leong
FPGA
2008
ACM
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FPGA-optimised high-quality uniform random number generators
This paper introduces a method of constructing random number generators from four of the basic primitives provided by FPGAs: Flip-Flips, Lookup-Tables, Shift Registers, and RAMs. ...
David B. Thomas, Wayne Luk
FPGA
2008
ACM
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The amorphous FPGA architecture
This paper describes the Amorphous FPGA, an innovative architecture attempting to optimally allocate logic and routing resource on per-mapping basis. Designed for high performance...
Mingjie Lin
ASAP
2007
IEEE
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Estimating Area Costs of Custom Instructions for FPGA-based Reconfigurable Processors
FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) based reconfigurable processor has been shown to meet the increasingly challenging performance targets and shorter time-to-market pressures. I...
Siew Kei Lam, Thambipillai Srikanthan
FPGA
2010
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
A 3d-audio reconfigurable processor
Various multimedia communication systems based on 3DAudio algorithms have been proposed by researchers from the acoustic data processing domain. However, all systems reported in t...
Dimitris Theodoropoulos, Georgi Kuzmanov, Georgi G...
FPGA
2010
ACM
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Efficient multi-ported memories for FPGAs
Multi-ported memories are challenging to implement with FPGAs since the provided block RAMs typically have only two ports. We present a thorough exploration of the design space of...
Charles Eric LaForest, J. Gregory Steffan