Title :
Designing Custom Arithmetic Data Paths with FloPoCo
Author :
De Dinechin, Florent ; Pasca, Bogdan
Author_Institution :
Ecole Normale Super. de Lyon, Lyon, France
Abstract :
Efficient implementation of basic, data-path circuit elements is of fundamental importance to achieving high performance in FPGA-based acceleration of scientific computing. This work presents a leading effort to automate the production of pipelined data-path circuits for implementing numerical functions.
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; floating point arithmetic; logic design; pipeline arithmetic; FPGA-based acceleration; FloPoCo; custom arithmetic data path design; data-path circuit elements; numerical functions; pipelined data-path circuits; scientific computing; Digital signal processing; Field programmable gate arrays; Generators; Pipeline processing; Synchronization; + C+ FPGAs; FloPoCo; VHDL; arithmetic circuit; core generator; data path; design and test; floating-point; framework; pipelining; reconfigurable computing;
Journal_Title :
Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MDT.2011.44
