Title :
BEE2: a high-end reconfigurable computing system
Author :
Chang, Chen ; Wawrzynek, John ; Brodersen, Robert W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
The Berkeley Emulation Engine 2 (BEE2) project is developing a reusable, modular, and scalable framework for designing high-end reconfigurable computers, including a processing-module building block and several programming models. Using these elements, BEE2 can provide over 10 times more computing throughput than a DSP-based system with similar power consumption and cost and over 100 times that of a microprocessor-based system.
Keywords :
digital signal processing chips; microprocessor chips; performance evaluation; real-time systems; reconfigurable architectures; Berkeley Emulation Engine 2; DSP-based system; high-end reconfigurable computing system; microprocessor-based system; processing-module building block; Application software; Computational modeling; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processing chips; Emulation; Energy consumption; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Radio astronomy; Throughput;
Journal_Title :
Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MDT.2005.30
