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2009
Springer
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Exploiting fast carry-chains of FPGAs for designing compressor trees
Fast carry chains featuring dedicated adder circuitry is a distinctive feature of modern FPGAs. The carry chains bypass the general routing network and are embedded in the logic b...
Hadi Parandeh-Afshar, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne
FPL
2009
Springer
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Low power techniques for Motion Estimation hardware
Motion Estimation (ME) is the most computationally intensive and the most power consuming part of video compression and video enhancement systems. In this paper, we propose a nove...
Caglar Kalaycioglu, Onur C. Ulusel, Ilker Hamzaogl...
FPL
2009
Springer
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A multi-layered XML schema and design tool for reusing and integrating FPGA IP
Reconfigurable computing systems remain difficult to use and program. One way to increase design productivity for these systems is through reuse of previously developed and veri...
Adam Arnesen, Nathan Rollins, Michael J. Wirthlin
FPL
2009
Springer
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A toolset for the analysis and optimization of motion estimation algorithms and processors
This paper presents a reconfigurable processor designed to execute user-defined block-matching motion estimation algorithms, and a toolset for the design of such algorithms and ...
Trevor Spiteri, George Vafiadis, Jose Luis Nunez-Y...
FPL
2009
Springer
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Data parallel FPGA workloads: Software versus hardware
Commercial soft processors are unable to effectively exploit the data parallelism present in many embedded systems workloads, requiring FPGA designers to exploit it (laboriously) ...
Peter Yiannacouras, J. Gregory Steffan, Jonathan R...
FPL
2009
Springer
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A reconfigurable architecture for the Phylogenetic Likelihood Function
As FPGA devices become larger, more coarse-grain modules coupled with large scale reconfigurable fabric become available, thus enabling new classes of applications to run effici...
Nikolaos Alachiotis, Alexandros Stamatakis, Euripi...
FPL
2009
Springer
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Program-driven fine-grained power management for the reconfigurable mesh
The reconfigurable mesh model for massively parallel computing has recently been rediscovered and proposed as the basis of a practical many-core architecture. With this paper, we...
Heiner Giefers, Marco Platzner
FPL
2009
Springer
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Towards a viable out-of-order soft core: Copy-Free, checkpointed register renaming
As a step torward a viable, single-issue out-of-order soft core, this work presents Copy-Free Checkpointing (CFC), an FPGA-friendly register renaming design. CFC supports speculat...
Kaveh Aasaraai, Andreas Moshovos
FPL
2009
Springer
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Improving the quality of a Physical Unclonable Function using configurable Ring Oscillators
A silicon Physical Unclonable Function (PUF), which is a die-unique challenge-response function, is an emerging hardware primitive for secure applications. It exploits manufacturi...
Abhranil Maiti, Patrick Schaumont
FPL
2009
Springer
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Macs: A Minimal Adaptive routing circuit-switched architecture for scalable and parametric NoCs
Networks-on-Chips (NoCs) are an emerging communication topology paradigm in single chip VLSI design, enhancing parallelism and system scalability. Processing units (PUs) connect t...
Rohit Kumar, Ann Gordon-Ross