PAM programming environments: practice and experience

Author

Bertin, Patrice ; Touati, Hervé

Author_Institution

Paris Res. Lab., Digital Equipment Corp., Rueil-Malmaison, France

fYear

1994

fDate

10-13 Apr 1994

Firstpage

133

Lastpage

138

Abstract

Digital Equipment´s Paris Research Laboratory started to investigate the use of FPGA-based reconfigurable hardware accelerators in 1988. We call them PAMs for Programmable Active Memories. Over the past six years, we have designed and implemented four generations of PAM hardware and four generations of PAM programming environments. Several dozen people, ranging from inexperienced students to senior hardware designers, have used our systems. A wide range of applications belonging to several important application domains have demonstrated the interest of these novel computing devices. In this paper we present the software lessons we draw from this collective experience

Keywords

logic arrays; programming environments; reconfigurable architectures; FPGA-based reconfigurable hardware accelerators; PAM programming environments; Programmable Active Memories; Application software; Coprocessors; DC generators; Digital signal processing; Frequency modulation; Hardware; Laboratories; Programming environments; Programming profession; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, 1994. Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Napa Valley, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5490-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPGA.1994.315599

Filename

315599