Title :
Are Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Ready for the Mainstream?
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Abstract :
For more than a decade, researchers have shown that field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can accelerate a wide variety of software, in some cases by several orders of magnitude compared to state-of-the-art microprocessors. Despite this performance advantage, FPGA accelerators have not yet been accepted by mainstream application designers and instead remain a niche technology used mainly in embedded systems.
Keywords :
embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; FPGA accelerators; embedded systems; field-programmable gate arrays; mainstream application designers; state-of-the-art microprocessors; Adders; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Graphics processing unit; Parallel processing; FPGA; Field-programmable gate array; GPU; multicore;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
