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Abstract
Certain numerical computations benefit from dedicated computation units, e.g. providing increased computation accuracy. Exploiting current interconnection technologies and advances in reconfigurable logic, restrictions and drawbacks of past approaches towards application-specific units can be overcome. This paper presents our implementation of an FPGA-based hardware unit for exact arithmetics. The unit is tightly integrated into the host system using state-of-the-art HyperTransport technology. An according runtime system provides OS-level support including dynamic function resolution. The approach demonstrates suitability and applicability of the chosen technologies, setting the pace towards broadly acceptable use of reconfigurable coprocessor technology for application-specific computing.
Document type: | Article |
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Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2009 11:37 |
Date: | 2009 |
Faculties / Institutes: | ?? i-720000 ?? |
DDC-classification: | 004 Data processing Computer science |
Controlled Keywords: | Computerarchitektur |