title: Exploiting the HTX-Board as a Coprocessor for Exact Arithmetics
creator: Nowak, Fabian
creator: Buchty, Rainer
creator: Kramer, David
creator: Karl, Wolfgang
subject: 004
subject: 004 Data processing Computer science
description: 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.
date: 2009
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/9114/1/whtra09_paper13.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00009114
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-91145
identifier:   Nowak, Fabian ; Buchty, Rainer ; Kramer, David ; Karl, Wolfgang  (2009) Exploiting the HTX-Board as a Coprocessor for Exact Arithmetics.         
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/9114/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng