A Single Program Multiple Data Parallel Processing Platform for FPGAs

Phil James-Roxby; Paul Schumacher; Charlie Ross

doi:10.1109/FCCM.2004.9

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Proceedings. 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines

A Single Program Multiple Data Parallel Processing Platform for FPGAs

Year: 2004, Pages: 302-303

DOI Bookmark: 10.1109/FCCM.2004.9

Authors

Phil James-Roxby, Xilinx Research Labs, Longmont, CO, USA
Paul Schumacher, Xilinx Research Labs, Longmont, CO, USA
Charlie Ross, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Abstract

The prevalence of software reference code motivates investigation into efficient implementations of software architectures on field-programmable devices. Modern FPGAs allow designers to generate multi-processor architectures that exactly match the processing needs of the algorithm. This paper describes an architecture supporting the single program multiple data model of parallel processing, and presents results taken from a parallel implementation of the JPEG2000 encoding algorithm and Mandelbrot set generation.