Title :
Rapid Design of Special-Purpose Pipeline Processors with FPGAs and its Application to Computational Fluid Dynamics
Author :
Lienhart, Gerhard ; Martinez, Guillermo Marcus ; Kugel, Andreas ; Manner, Reinhard
Author_Institution :
Dept. for Comput. Sci., Mannheim Univ., Mannheim, Germany
Abstract :
This paper presents a framework for rapid development of FPGA based custom processors based on floating-point calculation units. The framework consists of a fully parameterized floating-point library, an easy-to-use pipeline generator and an interface generator for memory and I/O-modules. The performance of this approach is shown for the implementation of an SPH-algorithm.
Keywords :
computational fluid dynamics; field programmable gate arrays; floating point arithmetic; logic design; microprocessor chips; pipeline processing; FPGA; SPH-algorithm; computational fluid dynamics; custom processors; floating-point calculation; rapid design; special-purpose pipeline processors; Buildings; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Hydrodynamics; Kernel; Libraries; Pipelines; Smoothing methods;
Conference_Titel :
Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2006. FCCM '06. 14th Annual IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Napa, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2661-6
DOI :
10.1109/FCCM.2006.60
