An End-to-End Tool Flow for FPGA-Accelerated Scientific Computing

Author

Stitt, Greg ; George, Alan ; Lam, Herman ; Reardon, Casey ; Smith, Melissa ; Holland, Brian ; Aggarwal, Vikas ; Wang, Gongyu ; Coole, James ; Koehler, Seth

Author_Institution

Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Volume

28

Issue

4

fYear

2011

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

77

Abstract

As part of their ongoing work with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC), the authors are developing a complete tool chain for FPGA-based acceleration of scientific computing, from early-stage assessment of applications down to rapid routing. This article provides an overview of this tool chain.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; mainframes; natural sciences computing; parallel machines; reconfigurable architectures; CHREC; FPGA-accelerated scientific computing; National Science Foundation Center; end-to-end tool flow; high-performance reconfigurable computing; rapid routing; tool chain; Algorithm design and analysis; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Predictive models; FPGAs; design and test; design automation; design-space exploration; productivity; reconfigurable computing; tool flow;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Design & Test of Computers, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7475

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MDT.2011.46

Filename

5765913