Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	GR/R55931/01
Title:	Data Types and Elementary Functions for Custom Computing
Principal Investigator:	Mencer, Dr OP
Other Investigators:	Luk, Professor W
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Department:	Computing
Organisation:	Imperial College London
Scheme:	Fast Stream
Starts:	01 March 2002	Ends:	28 February 2005	Value (£):	66,058
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	VLSI Design
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Electronics
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Summary on Grant Application Form
The aim of this project is to enable a simple and familiar C++ programming model for customising Filed-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) bases implementations. FPGAs have been widely used in academia and in industry, because they allow short design cycles, low development costs, in-sit upgrades and hardware customisation at run time. The purpose of the proposed project is to enable rapid production of efficient parameterisablf structures which can easily be adapted to a variety of requirements. The research will result in a framework for customising arithmetic designs consisting of a parameterised library of arithmetic modules and a mapping mechanism from a sequential program to a custom hardware architecture The investigation will include abstracting parameters for arithmetic modules, automating the optimization of parameters, and searching for solutions tc the general precision optimization problem.
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