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SASP
2009
IEEE
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Introducing control-flow inclusion to support pipelining in custom instruction set extensions
—Multi-cycle Instruction set extensions (ISE) can be pipelined in order to increase their throughput; however, typical program traces seldom contain consecutive calls to the same...
Marcela Zuluaga, Theo Kluter, Philip Brisk, Nigel ...
FCCM
2009
IEEE
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Application Specific Customization and Scalability of Soft Multiprocessors
Although soft microprocessors are widely used in FPGAs, limited work has been performed regarding how to automatically and efficiently generate soft multiprocessors. In this paper...
Deepak Unnikrishnan, Jia Zhao, Russell Tessier
FCCM
2009
IEEE
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A Parameterized Stereo Vision Core for FPGAs
—We present a parameterized stereo vision core suitable for a wide range of FPGA targets and stereo vision applications. By enabling easy tuning of algorithm parameters, our syst...
Stephen Longfield Jr., Mark L. Chang
FCCM
2009
IEEE
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RC-BLASTn: Implementation and Evaluation of the BLASTn Scan Function
BLASTn is a tool universally used by biologists to identify similarities between nucleotide based biological genome sequences. This report describes an FPGA based hardware impleme...
Siddhartha Datta, Parag Beeraka, Ron Sass
FCCM
2009
IEEE
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FPGA Floating Point Datapath Compiler
This paper will describe the architecture of a compiler which will convert an untimed C description of a set of floating point expressions into a synthesizable datapath optimized ...
Martin Langhammer, Tom VanCourt
FCCM
2009
IEEE
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FPGA-based Monte Carlo Computation of Light Absorption for Photodynamic Cancer Therapy
—Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a method of treating cancer that combines light and light-sensitive drugs to selectively destroy cancerous tumours without harming the healthy tiss...
Jason Luu, Keith Redmond, William Lo, Paul Chow, L...
FCCM
2009
IEEE
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Optical Flow on the Ambric Massively Parallel Processor Array (MPPA)
The Ambric Massively Parallel Processor Array (MPPA) is a device that contains 336 32-bit RISC processors and is appropriate for embedded systems due to its relatively small physi...
Brad L. Hutchings, Brent E. Nelson, Stephen West, ...
FCCM
2009
IEEE
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Accelerating SPICE Model-Evaluation using FPGAs
—Single-FPGA spatial implementations can provide an order of magnitude speedup over sequential microprocessor implementations for data-parallel, floating-point computation in SP...
Nachiket Kapre, André DeHon
FCCM
2009
IEEE
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Exploiting Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs for Situation-Based Reconfiguration in Wireless Sensor Networks
—Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are typically composed of very small, battery-operated devices (sensor nodes) containing simple microprocessors with few computational resources....
Rafael Garcia, Ann Gordon-Ross, Alan D. George