HAIL: a hardware-accelerated algorithm for language identification

Author

Kastner, Charles M. ; Covington, G. Adam ; Levine, Andrew A. ; Lockwood, John W.

Author_Institution

Appl. Res. Lab., Washington Univ. in St. Louis, MO, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

24-26 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

499

Lastpage

504

Abstract

A hardware-accelerated algorithm has been designed to automatically identify the primary languages used in documents transferred over the Internet. The algorithm has been implemented in hardware on the field programmable port extender (FPX) platform. This system, referred to as the hardware-accelerated identification of languages (HAIL) project, identifies the primary languages used in content transferred over transmission control protocol (TCP)/Internet protocol (IP) networks that operate at rates exceeding 2.4 Gigabits/second. We demonstrate that this hardware accelerated circuit, operating on a Xilinx XCV2000E-8 FPGA, far outperforms software algorithms running on modern personal computers while maintaining extremely high levels of accuracy.

Keywords

Internet; document handling; field programmable gate arrays; microprocessor chips; reconfigurable architectures; transport protocols; HAIL; Internet protocol networks; Xilinx XCV2000E-8 FPGA; documents transfer; field programmable port extender platform; hardware accelerated circuit; hardware implementation; hardware-accelerated identification of languages; primary language identification; software algorithms; transmission control protocol; Acceleration; Algorithm design and analysis; Automatic control; Circuits; Control systems; Hardware; IP networks; Internet; Protocols; TCPIP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2005. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9362-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPL.2005.1515771

Filename

1515771