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SUMMARY:Compiling C-like Languages to FPGA Hardware: Some Novel Approaches
  Targeting Data Memory Organisation - Qiang Liu\, Imperial College London
DTSTART:20080715T130000Z
DTEND:20080715T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr George A Constantinides
DESCRIPTION:This talk describes our approaches to raise the level of\nabst
 raction at which hardware suitable for accelerating\ncomputationally-inten
 sive applications can be specified.\nField-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs
 ) are becoming adopted as a computational platform by the high-performance
  computing community\, but there are challenges to extract maximum perform
 ance from these\ndevices. Unlike other approaches\, our focus is on data m
 emory organisation and input-output bandwidth considerations\, which are t
 he typical stumbling block of existing hardware compilation schemes. We de
 scribe our approaches\, which are based on formal optimization techniques\
 , and present some results showing the\nadvantage of exposing the interact
 ion between data memory system design and parallelism extraction to the co
 mpiler.\n
LOCATION:Mahanakorn Laboratory\, EEE
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