FPGA based hardware architectures for high performance computing applications

The paper describes the FPGA technology together with its possibility to exploit spatial and temporal parallelism in order to develop high performance computing applications. The development of hardware architecture using FPGA technology represents a reliable solution in case of various applications where fast processing it´s mandatory. Two applications are presented where the FPGA technology is used. Thus, on one hand, automatic microarray image processing is performed using FPGA based hardware architecture, while on the other hand, an FPGA based LDPC decoder implementation is proposed in order to improve the decoder throughput compared to state of the art approaches.