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Inventi Impact: Reconfigurable Computing

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  • Inventi:erc/4/11
    FPGA ACCELERATION OF COMMUNICATION-BOUND STREAMING APPLICATIONS: ARCHITECTURE MODELING AND A 3D IMAGE COMPOSITING CASE STUDY
    30-Sep-2011 Research 2011 : October - December
    Tobias Schumacher, Tim Sü�, Christian Plessl, Marco Platzner

    Reconfigurable computers usually provide a limited number of different memory resources, such as host memory, external memory, and on-chip memory with different capacities and communication characteristics. A key challenge for achieving high-performance with reconfigurable accelerators is the efficient utilization of the available memory resources. A detailed knowledge of the memories' parameters is key for generating an optimized communication layout. In this paper, we discuss a benchmarking environment for generating such a characterization. The environment is built on IMORC, our architectural template and on-chip network for creating reconfigurable accelerators. We provide a characterization of the memory resources available on the XtremeData XD1000 reconfigurable computer. Based on this data, we present as a case study the implementation of a 3D image compositing accelerator that is able to double the frame rate of a parallel renderer.

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    CC Compliant Citation: Tobias Schumacher, Tim S¨u�, Christian\r\nPlessl, Marco Platzner, FPGA Acceleration of Communication-\r\nBound Streaming Applications: Architecture Modeling and a 3D\r\nImage Compositing Case Study, Hindawi Publishing Corporation\r\nInternational Journal of Reconfigurable Computing Volume 2011,\r\nArticle ID 760954.
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