FPGAs for Software Programmers

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Koch, Dirk (Editor), Hannig, Frank (Editor), Ziener, Daniel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Microprocessors.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Processor Architectures.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

This book makes powerful Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and reconfigurable technology accessible to software engineers by covering different state-of-the-art high-level synthesis approaches (e.g., OpenCL and several C-to-gates compilers). It introduces FPGA technology, its programming model, a...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Introduction
• CPUs, GPUs, CGRAs, Vector Processing, Systolic Arrays, FPGAs
• The von Neuman Model versus data stream processing
• FPGAs for software designers
• Languages, libraries, and compilers for specific problems
• Behavioral Compiler Capabilities and optimization strategies.