LALP: A Novel Language to Program Custom FPGA-based Architectures

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2009

Autores

Menotti, R (Autor) Outra; João M. P. Cardoso (Autor) FEUP; Fernandes, MM (Autor) Outra; Marques, E (Autor) Outra

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

Páginas: 3-10

21st International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing

Sao Paulo, BRAZIL, OCT 28-31, 2009

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 3 Citações

Scopus - 4 Citações

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-007-S2C

DOI: 10.1109/sbac-pad.2009.23

Abstract (EN): Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are becoming increasingly important in embedded and high-performance computing systems. They allow performance levels close to the ones obtained from Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), while still keeping design and implementation flexibility. However to efficiently program FPGAs, one needs the expertise of hardware developers and to master hardware description languages (HDLs) such as VHDL or Verilog. The attempts to furnish a high-level compilation flow (e.g., front C programs) still have open issues before efficient and consistent results can be obtained. Bearing in mind the FPGA resources, we have developed LALP, a novel language to program FPGAs. A compilation framework including mapping capabilities supports the language. The main ideas behind LALP is to provide a higher abstraction level than HDLs, to exploit the intrinsic parallelism of hardware resources, and to permit the programmer to control execution stages whenever the compiler techniques are unable to generate efficient implementations. In this paper we describe LALP, and show how it can be used to achieve high-performance computing solutions.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 8