TY  - JOUR
Y1  - 2009///
AV  - public
ID  - heidok9114
TI  - Exploiting the HTX-Board as a Coprocessor for Exact Arithmetics
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/9114/
N2  - 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.
A1  - Nowak, Fabian
A1  - Buchty, Rainer
A1  - Kramer, David
A1  - Karl, Wolfgang
ER  -