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CoRAM : An In-Fabric Memory Abstraction for FPGA-Based Computing
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Chung, Eric S. Hoe, James C. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | FPGAs have been used in many applications to achieve orders-of-magnitude improvement in absolute performance and energy efficiency relative to conventional microprocessors. Despite their newfound potency in both processing performance and energy efficiency, FPGAs have not gained widespread acceptance as mainstream computing devices. A fundamental obstacle to FPGA-based computing can be traced to the FPGA’s lack of a common, scalable memory abstraction. When developing for FPGAs today, application writers are often directly responsible for crafting the application-specific infrastructure logic that transports data to and from the processing kernels. This infrastructure not only increases design time and effort but will often inflexibly lock a design to a particular FPGA product line, hindering scalability and portability. We propose a new FPGA memory abstraction called Connected RAM (CoRAM) to serve as a portable bridge between the distributed computation kernels and the edge memory interfaces. In addition to improving performance and efficiency, the CoRAM architecture provides a virtualized memory environment as seen by the hardware kernels to simplify application development and to improve an application’s portability and scalability. This CARL workshop research overview summarizes our published work in FPGA’11 [4]. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse591n/11wi/papers/Chung10_CoRAM.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~calcm/carl2010/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=carl2010-chung.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
