Reconfigurable Computing

Accelerating Computation with Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
Softcover Nachdruck of hardcover 1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4419-3865-7
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

A one-of-a-kind survey of the field of Reconfigurable Computing

Gives a comprehensive introduction to a discipline that offers a 10X-100X acceleration of algorithms over microprocessors

Discusses the impact of reconfigurable hardware on a wide range of applications: signal and image processing, network security, bioinformatics, and supercomputing

Includes the history of the field as well as recent advances

Includes an extensive bibliography of primary sources

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graham, Paul S.

Gokhale, Maya B.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Elektrotechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Elektrotechnische Normen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An Introduction to Reconfigurable Computing. What is RC? RC Architectures. How did RC originate? Inside the FPGA. Mapping Algorithms to Hardware. RC Applications. Example: Dot Product. Further Reading.- Reconfigurable Logic Devices. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays. Summary.- Reconfigurable Computing Systems. Parallel Processing on Reconfigurable Computers. A Survey of Reconfigurable Computing Systems. Summary.- Languages and Compilation. Design Cycle. Languages. High Level Compilation. Low Level Design Flow. Debugging Reconfigurable Computing Applications. Summary.- Signal Processing Applications. What is Digital Signal Processing? Why Use Reconfigurable Computing for DSP? DSP Application Building Blocks. Example DSP Applications.- Image Processing. RC for Image and Video Processing. Local Neighborhood Functions. Convolution. Morphology. Feature Extraction. Automatic Target Recognition. Image Matching. Evolutionary Image Processing. Summary.- Network Security. Cryptographic Applications. Network Protocol Security. Summary.- Bioinformatics Applications. Introduction. Applications. Dynamic Programming Algorithms. Seed-Based Heuristics. Profiles, HMMs and Language Models. Bioinformatics FPGA Accelerators. Summary.- Supercomputing Applications. Introduction. Monte Carlo Simulation of Radiative Heat Transfer. Urban Road Traffic Simulation.