Template-Based Generation of Streaming Accelators from a High Level Presentation

  • Authors:
  • Nikolaos Bellas;Sek M. Chai;Malcolm Dwyer;Dan Linzmeier

  • Affiliations:
  • Embedded Systems Research, Motorola Inc.,;Embedded Systems Research, Motorola Inc.;Embedded Systems Research, Motorola Inc.;Embedded Systems Research, Motorola Inc.

  • Venue:
  • FCCM '06 Proceedings of the 14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The availability of a tool flow that abstracts out the FPGA hardware structures and presents a software-only front end interface to the application developer is a necessary step to precipitate the acceptance of FPGAs as SoC platforms. Such a tool can be used by a larger pool of engineers, and not necessarily experts in system architecture and hardware design. Furthermore, an architectural automation tool should combine interactive architectural exploration, automatic hardware-software partition and an efficient mapping of one or multiple kernels to the reconfigurable fabric.