Need for large local FPGA-accessible memories in the integration of bio-inspired applications into embedded systems

Author

Spaanenburg, Henk ; Thompson, Joe ; Abraham, Verge ; Spaanenburg, Lambert ; Fang, Wenhai

Author_Institution

Adv. Principles Group, Inc., Manchester, NH

fYear

2006

fDate

21-24 May 2006

Lastpage

1960

Abstract

Advanced Principles Group (APG) has developed a reconfigurable computing board (RCB) based on the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA family, potentially capable of 1.5-2.0 TeraOps of compute power, 100 Gbps I/O on front panel, 4 Gbps I/O on backplane, as well as containing more than 4 GBytes of on-board memory. Computationally complex applications such as software-defined radio, synthetic aperture radar, hyper-spectral imaging and cellular neural networks drive similar wide bandwidths and therefore require super-computing I/O and signal processing densities far exceeding the capabilities of current and future microprocessor-based system technology. We illustrate how such applications benefit from the large amount of local FPGA-accessible memory (4+ GBytes) provided on the RCB

Keywords

embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; signal processing; 100 Gbit/s; 4 Gbit/s; FPGA-accessible memories; Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA; bioinspired applications; cellular neural networks; embedded systems; hyper-spectral imaging; on-board memory; reconfigurable computing board; signal processing; software-defined radio; synthetic aperture radar; Application software; Backplanes; Bandwidth; Biomedical signal processing; Cellular neural networks; Computer applications; Computer networks; Embedded system; Field programmable gate arrays; Radar signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2006. ISCAS 2006. Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Island of Kos

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9389-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1692995

Filename

1692995