ATLANTIS - A Hybrid FPGA/RISC Based Re-configurable System

  • Authors:
  • Oliver Brosch;Jürgen Hesser;Christian Hinkelbein;Klaus Kornmesser;Torsten Kuberka;Andreas Kugel;Reinhard Männer;Holger Singpiel;Bernd Vettermann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IPDPS '00 Proceedings of the 15 IPDPS 2000 Workshops on Parallel and Distributed Processing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

ATLANTIS is the result of 8 years of experience with large stand alone and smaller PCI based FPGA processors. Dedicated FPGA boards for computing and I/O plus a private backplane for a data rate of up to 1 GB/s sup port flexibility and scalability. FPGAs with more than 100k gates and 400 I/O pins per chip are used. CompactPCI provides the basic communication mecha nism. Current real-time applications include pattern recognition tasks in high energy physics, 2D image processing, volume rendering, and n-body calculations in astronomy. First measurements and estimations show an acceleration up to a factor of 25 compared to a PC workstation, or commercial volume render ing hardware, respectively. Our CHDL, an object-oriented development environment is used for application programming.