Design Tool for a Heterogeneous Fabric Generation HetFabBuilder.
(How to obtain an excellent accelerator in one hour)
Speaker:
Christophe Wolinski is an associated professor at the IFSIC of Rennes (France).
At present, he is a visiting staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
His research interests include real time systems, embedded systems,
digital signal processing architectures, high level synthesis, and re-configurable
computing systems. Wolinski has an MS and PhD from the Polytechnic
University of Warsaw (Poland) and D.Sc. from the University of Rennes I France.
Abstract
We will present a new universal architecture of a re-configurable Fabric and
the tool HetFabBuilder that automatically generates a Fabric from its
abstract representation.
Our methodology will be illustrated by two applications: Matched Filters and
Covariance Matrix for multi-spectral images.
We will conclude by showing the performance of these applications implemented
on the Excalibur ARM programmable circuits. The implementations of the above
applications are characterized by small hardware overhead.