| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N66599/01 |
| Title: |
OPTIMISING RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE PARALLELISM FOR CONCURRENT PROGRAMS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Luk, Professor W |
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Computing |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 2001 |
Ends: |
31 December 2004 |
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211,506
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Electronics |
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The aim of this project is to develop methods and tools for optimising reconfigurable hardware implementation of concurrent programs. Such implementations can be realised efficiently using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), which have been widely used in industry and academia, because they allow short design cycles, low development costs, in-situ upgrades, and hardware adaptation to run-time conditions. The proposed project combines three research strands: (1) syntax-directed compilation methods, used for concurrent languages such as Handel-C; (2) parallelisation techniques, such as pipeline vectorisation introduced by Weinhardt and Luk; (3) reconfigurable design, such as the compile-time and run-time systems by Shirazi, Luk and Cheung. The combined framework will provide a powerful means of optionally optimising parallelism and reconfiguration in implementations for concurrent programs. The project will begin with the development of methods and tools for parallelising concurrent programs; extensions to cover run-time reconfiguration and domain-specific optimisations will then be explored.
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