Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Plenary Talks

   1. Reconfigurable Computing for High Performance Networking Applications

      • Gordon Brebner

      Pages 1-1

   2. Biologically-Inspired Massively-Parallel Architectures: A Reconfigurable Neural Modelling Platform

      • Steve Furber

      Pages 2-2

3. Reconfigurable Accelerators I

   1. A Reconfigurable Audio Beamforming Multi-Core Processor

      • Dimitris Theodoropoulos, Georgi Kuzmanov, Georgi Gaydadjiev

      Pages 3-15

   2. A Regular Expression Matching Circuit Based on a Decomposed Automaton

      • Hiroki Nakahara, Tsutomu Sasao, Munehiro Matsuura

      Pages 16-28

   3. Design and Implementation of a Multi-Core Crypto-Processor for Software Defined Radios

      • Michael Grand, Lilian Bossuet, Bertrand Le Gal, Guy Gogniat, Dominique Dallet

      Pages 29-40

4. Design Tools

   1. Application Specific Memory Access, Reuse and Reordering for SDRAM

      • Samuel Bayliss, George A. Constantinides

      Pages 41-52

   2. Automatic Generation of FPGA-Specific Pipelined Accelerators

      • Christophe Alias, Bogdan Pasca, Alexandru Plesco

      Pages 53-66

   3. HLS Tools for FPGA: Faster Development with Better Performance

      • Alexandre Cornu, Steven Derrien, Dominique Lavenier

      Pages 67-78

5. Posters 1

   1. A (Fault-Tolerant)2 Scheduler for Real-Time HW Tasks

      • Xabier Iturbe, Khaled Benkrid, Tughrul Arslan, Mikel Azkarate, Imanol Martinez

      Pages 79-87

   2. A Compact Gaussian Random Number Generator for Small Word Lengths

      • Subhasis Das, Sachin Patkar

      Pages 88-93

   3. Accurate Floating Point Arithmetic through Hardware Error-Free Transformations

      • Manouk V. Manoukian, George A. Constantinides

      Pages 94-101

   4. Active Storage Networks for Accelerating K-Means Data Clustering

      • Janardhan Singaraju, John A. Chandy

      Pages 102-109

   5. An FPGA Implementation for Texture Analysis Considering the Real-Time Requirements of Vision-Based Systems

      • Mario-Alberto Ibarra-Manzano, Dora-Luz Almanza-Ojeda

      Pages 110-117

   6. CReAMS: An Embedded Multiprocessor Platform

      • Mateus B. Rutzig, Antonio Carlos S. Beck, Luigi Carro

      Pages 118-124

   7. Dataflow Graph Partitioning for Optimal Spatio-Temporal Computation on a Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Architecture

      • Ratna Krishnamoorthy, Keshavan Varadarajan, Masahiro Fujita, Mythri Alle, S. K. Nandy, Ranjani Narayan

      Pages 125-132

6. Reconfigurable Processors

   1. A Pipeline Interleaved Heterogeneous SIMD Soft Processor Array Architecture for MIMO-OFDM Detection

      • Xuezheng Chu, John McAllister, Roger Woods

      Pages 133-144

   2. Design, Implementation, and Verification of an Adaptable Processor in Lava HDL

      • Stefan Schulze, Sergei Sawitzki

      Pages 145-156

   3. Towards an Adaptable Multiple-ISA Reconfigurable Processor

      • Jair Fajardo Junior, Mateus B. Rutzig, Antonio C. S. Beck, Luigi Carro

      Pages 157-168

7. Applications

   1. FPGA-Based Cherenkov Ring Recognition in Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments

      • Ming Liu, Zhonghai Lu, Wolfgang Kuehn, Axel Jantsch

      Pages 169-180

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications, ARC 2011, held in Belfast, UK, in March 2011. The 40 revised papers presented, consisting of 24 full papers, 14 poster papers, and the abstracts of 2 plenary talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The topics covered are reconfigurable accelerators, design tools, reconfigurable processors, applications, device architecture, methodology and simulation, and system architecture.

• cluster computing
• dynamic programming
• fault-tolerance
• functional languages
• graph theory
• hardware accelerator
• high reliability
• machine vision
• middleware
• multi-cores
• parallelism
• programmable logic
• real-time systems
• reconfigurable architectures
• scalability
• self-configurable
• system-on-chip
• virtualization
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• FB 20 Informatik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

  Andreas Koch

• Intel Corp., Hillsboro, USA

  Ram Krishnamurthy

• School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK

  John McAllister, Roger Woods

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, USA

  Tarek El-Ghazawi

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