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Reconfigurable computing takes advantage of cpus for serial and task parallel workloads. Introduction to reconfigurable systems reiner hartenstein. For many years researchers have tried to use reconfigurable computing technology namely fpgas to help solve many computationally demands problems in domains like scientific computing, finance, security and military applications. Reconfigurable computing has got a major step with the cray xd1 highperformance computer see figure 4 by breaking down performance barriers at substantially lowered cost by using offtheshelf components from xilinx to solve difficult computational problems. Ieee journal papers on reconfigurable architectures. Santambrogio, and donatella sciuto volume 2008, article id 731830, 2 pages design flow instantiation for runtime reconfigurable systems. Reconfigurable computing is a computer architecture combining some of the flexibility of software with the high performance of hardware by processing with very flexible high speed computing fabrics like fieldprogrammable gate arrays fpgas. A oneofakind survey of the field of reconfigurable computing. Hybrid reconfigurable logic for lowpower space systems jeffrey daniel poznanovic. Christophe bobda, introduction to reconfigurable computing, springer publication. Digital signal processing on reconfigurable computing systems.
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Edited by rene cumplido, maya gokhale, claudia uribe, michael huebner. All content in this area was uploaded by maya gokhale on mar 17, 2015. The existence of reconfigurable logic arrays has made it possible to create on the same physical hardware platform many different virtual circuits. A reconfigurable computing framework for multiscale cellular image processing. Lin, implementation consideration for fpgation consideration for fpga. High performance computing architectures hpca society papers. Special issue on fpgabased reconfigurable computing 3. Special issue on reconfigurable computing and fpga technology edited by rene cumplido, maya gokhale, claudia uribe, michael huebner last update 5 november 2019. The solution to low power programmable dpr in proceedings of the 1997 ieee international conference on acoustics, speech, and signal processing, april 1997. Introduction to reconfigurable systems reconfigurable system rs any system whose subsystem configurations can be changed or modified after fabrication reconfigurable computing rc is commonly used to designate computers whose processing elements, memory units, andor interconnectionscan. Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on highperformance reconfigurable computing technology and applications. Syllabus fpga design parallel processing architectures.
Examples of such applications include processor modeling, applicationspecific compression, and digital signal processing. Let us have a brief look onto earlier alternatives to the fpga. Reconfigurable computing rc, the use of programmable logic to accelerate computation, arose in the late 80 s with the widespread commercial availability of fieldprogrammable gate arrays fpgas. However, continued moores law scaling has given fpgas new life as accelerators for applications that map well to finegrained parallel substrates.
A configuration bit stream loaded into the logic array determines the virtual circuit that is to be emulated. Significant problems had to be overcome ranging from nonideal vendor architectures with limited support for dynamic reconfigurations to a lack of programming. These architectures are a good match for many image and video processing applications and can be substantially accelerated with reconfigurable computers. It is suitable for custom research applications, for cad tool development, and for architecture exploration. Ebooks and ejournals are hosted on igi globals infosci platform and available for pdf andor epub download on a. Reconfigurable computing devices can change their internal hardware partially or completely at runtime by downloading a configuration. Accelerating computation with fieldprogrammable gate arrays gokhale, maya b. The principal difference when compared to using ordinary microprocessors is the ability to make. Accelerating computation with fieldprogrammable gate arrays by maya b. Your print orders will be fulfilled, even in these challenging times. Gokhale, one of the founders of the field, has written the first book i know of that summarizes current state of the art. The 50% discount is offered for all ebooks and ejournals purchased on igi globals online bookstore. Download now reconfigurable computing marks a revolutionary and hot topic that bridges the gap between the separate worlds of hardware and software design the key feature of reconfigurable computing is its groundbreaking ability to perform computations in hardware to increase performance while retaining the flexibility of a software solution.
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Reconfigurable computing proceedings of the 36th annual acm. Contents reconfigurable computing and hardwaresoftware codesign, toomas p. High level languages cfpga environment direct mapping of c code to configuration level is possible. Digital signal processing on reconfigurable computing systems oliver liu engg6090. The malleable architecture generator marge is a tool set that translates highlevel parallel c to configuration bit streams for fieldprogrammable logic based computing systems. Accelerating computation with fieldprogrammable gate arrays. Maya gokhale, james kaba, aaron marks, and jang kim malleable architecture generator for fpga computing, proc. The principal difference when compared to using ordinary microprocessors is the ability to make substantial. Pdf download reconfigurable computing free ebooks pdf. One promising approach to improve simulation performance is to apply hardware, specifically reconfigurable hardware in the form of field programmable gate arrays fpgas. The special issue on reconfigurable computing and hardwaresoftware codesign addresses the advances in reconfigurable computing architectures, in algorithm implementation methods, and in automatic mapping methods of algorithms onto hardware and processor spaces, indicating the changes in codesign flow due to the introduction of new. The software supports emulation and simulation of compiled code for debugging. Gokhale, lawrence livermore national laboratory, livermore. Traditionally, fpgas have been confined to the limited role of small, lowvolume asic replacements and as circuit emulators.
Malleable architecture generator for fpga computing. Lawrence livermore national laboratory, livermore, california. Maya gokhale, paul ghaham, reconfigurable computing, springer publication. Gokhale the design warriors guide to fpgas, chapter 12. A computer architecture combining some of the flexibility of software with the high performance of hardware by processing with very flexible high speed computing fabrics like fieldprogrammable gate arrays fpgas.
As the complexity of modern embedded systems increases, it becomes less practical to design monolithic processing platforms. Cellular computing architectures represent an important class of computation that are characterized by simple processing elements, local interconnect and massive. It is valuable to identify and catalog design patterns for recon. With the mom2, an early reconfigurable computer architecture, the following speedup factors have been obtained. Significant problems had to be overcome ranging from nonideal vendor architectures with limited support for dynamic reconfigurations to a lack of. Read download reconfigurable computing pdf pdf download.
Gives a comprehensive introduction to a discipline that offers a 10x100x acceleration of algorithms over microprocessors. Cellular computing architectures represent an important class of computation that are characterized by simple processing elements, local interconnect and massive parallelism. Language classification using ngrams accelerated by fpga. Fortunately, new flexible hardware design techniques are emerging from the study of reconfigurable computing. Printable pdf designers of embedded systems face three significant challenges in todays ultracompetitive marketplace. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th international symposium on reconfigurable computing. Fortunately, new flexible hardware design techniques are emerging from the. This manuscript describes various approaches of using fpgas to accelerate.
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Dataparallel c on a reconfigurable logic array springerlink. Reconfigurable computing system for image processing via the internet. Maya gokhale, james kaba, aaron marks, and jang kim malleable architecture generator for fpga computing. The principal difference when compared to using ordinary microprocessors is the ability to make substantial changes to the datapath itself in addition to. Nov 05, 2019 rene cumplido, maya gokhale, claudia feregrino, michael huebner. Reconfigurable computing accelerating computation with. Computing elements can be gpus, dsps, or fpga interconnect to computing elements can be pcie, axi, etc. Poweraware computing pactechnology was developed atthelosalamos national laboratory lanl to aid in the. Reconfigurable computing proceedings of the 36th annual. A reconfigurable computing framework for multiscale.
Basics of reconfigurable computing tu kaiserslautern. Reconfigurable computing accelerating computation with fieldprogrammable gate arrays. Locating, identifying the contaminants, and planning for environmental cleanup of land and sea military ranges and dumpsites. Cpus can be any architecture x86, arm, etc takes advantages of computing elements that are good at data parallel workloads.