The Role of Programming Models on Reconfigurable Computing Fabrics

Reconfigurable computing architectures are playing a very important role in specific computing domains (Hauck & DeHon, 2008). In the arena of high-performance computing (HPC), Field-Programmable Gate-Arrays (FPGAs) have exhibited in many cases outstanding performance gains over traditional von-Neumann based computer architectures (El-Ghazawi et al., 2008). In the context of embedded systems, FPGAs are common-place for early prototyping, and more recently even for deployment, given such characteristics as the substantial increase of resources in the high-end FPGAs, the ability to “zero-cost” update of hardware in early timing windows where modifications might have abstraCt

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