eprintid: 9114
rev_number: 17
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/00/91/14
datestamp: 2009-03-03 11:37:11
lastmod: 2016-01-10 06:28:56
status_changed: 2012-08-14 15:28:13
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Nowak, Fabian
creators_name: Buchty, Rainer
creators_name: Kramer, David
creators_name: Karl, Wolfgang
title: Exploiting the HTX-Board as a Coprocessor for Exact Arithmetics
ispublished: pub
subjects: 004
divisions: 720000
cterms_swd: Computerarchitektur
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.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2009
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00009114
portal_cluster_id: p-whtra09
portal_order: 5
ppn_swb: 1373992409
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-91145
language: eng
bibsort: NOWAKFABIAEXPLOITING2009
full_text_status: public
citation:   Nowak, Fabian ; Buchty, Rainer ; Kramer, David ; Karl, Wolfgang  (2009) Exploiting the HTX-Board as a Coprocessor for Exact Arithmetics.         
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/9114/1/whtra09_paper13.pdf