Perspectives on custom computing

Author

Luk, Wayne ; Styles, Henry

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

Oct. 29 2000-Nov. 1 2000

Firstpage

370

Abstract

Custom computing involves customising computations for one or more applications in a given implementation technology. We describe a framework for customising designs using appropriate libraries, compilers, validation facilities, application programming interfaces and front-end tools. The development of custom architectures, data formats and operations is presented. We show how circuits can be customised at run time to adapt to changes in the operating conditions. Graphics examples are used throughout the paper to illustrate our approach.

Keywords

application program interfaces; application specific integrated circuits; computer graphics; reconfigurable architectures; application programming interface; compiler; computer graphics; custom architecture; custom circuit; custom computing; data format; design methodology; front-end tool; library; reconfigurable hardware; validation facility; Application software; Application specific integrated circuits; Computer architecture; Design optimization; Fabrication; Field programmable gate arrays; Graphics; Hardware; Libraries; Runtime;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 2000. Conference Record of the Thirty-Fourth Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA, USA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6514-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.2000.910980

Filename

910980