Application of FPGA to accelerate plasma FDTD algorithm

This paper introduced how to use FPGA to accelerate plasma FDTD algorithm. First, the numerical system and basic circuit structure are discussed, then this design is optimized by introducing parallel computation and pipelined architecture. After these, we compute the reflection of electromagnetic wave through an unmagnetized collision plasma slab and the analysis of results and time consumption are presented. The results indicate that it is a good way to combine the parallel characteristic of FPGA with the FDTD algorithm, and get required precision and high performance.