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ERSA
2006
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Relocation and Defragmentation for Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Systems
Current FPGAs are heterogeneous partially reconfigurable architectures, consisting of several resource types, e. g., logic cells and embedded memory. By using partial reconfigurat...
Markus Koester, Heiko Kalte, Mario Porrmann
FPL
2008
Springer
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Fault tolerant methods for reliability in FPGAs
Reliability and process variability are serious issues for FPGAs in the future. Fortunately FPGAs have the ability to reconfigure in the field and at runtime, thus providing oppor...
Edward A. Stott, N. Pete Sedcole, Peter Y. K. Cheu...
FPL
2008
Springer
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FPGA family composition and effects of specialized blocks
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have gained wide acceptance among low- to medium-volume applications. However, there are gaps between FPGA and custom implementations in ter...
Pongstorn Maidee, Nagib Hakim, Kia Bazargan
ECOOP
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Liquid Metal: Object-Oriented Programming Across the Hardware/Software Boundary
Abstract. The paradigm shift in processor design from monolithic processors to multicore has renewed interest in programming models that facilitate parallelism. While multicores ar...
Shan Shan Huang, Amir Hormati, David F. Bacon, Rod...
FPL
2009
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
An ASIC perspective on FPGA optimizations
In this paper we discuss how various design components perform in both FPGAs and standard cell based ASICs. We also investigate how various common FPGA optimizations will effect t...
Andreas Ehliar, Dake Liu
ARC
2010
Springer
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Space and Time Sharing of Reconfigurable Hardware for Accelerated Parallel Processing
High-Performance Reconfigurable Computers (HPRCs) are parallel machines consisting of FPGAs and microprocessors, with the FPGAs used as co-processors. The execution of parallel app...
Esam El-Araby, Vikram K. Narayana, Tarek A. El-Gha...
FPL
1995
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
An Assessment of the Suitability of FPGA-Based Systems for Use in Digital Signal Processing
Abstract. FPGAs have been proposed as high-performance alternatives to DSP processors. This paper quantitatively compares FPGA performance against DSP processors and ASICs using ac...
Russell J. Petersen, Brad L. Hutchings
FPGA
2000
ACM
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Technology mapping for k/m-macrocell based FPGAs
In this paper, we study the technology mapping problem for a novel FPGA architecture that is based on k-input single-output PLA-like cells, or, k/m-macrocells. Each cell in this a...
Jason Cong, Hui Huang, Xin Yuan
FPGA
2004
ACM
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An embedded true random number generator for FPGAs
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are an increasingly popular choice of platform for the implementation of cryptographic systems. Until recently, designers using FPGAs had le...
Paul Kohlbrenner, Kris Gaj
ICCAD
1998
IEEE
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CORDS: hardware-software co-synthesis of reconfigurable real-time distributed embedded systems
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are commonly used in embedded systems. Although it is possible to reconfigure some FPGAs while an embedded system is operational, this featu...
Robert P. Dick, Niraj K. Jha