Paper Details

@InProceedings{Gook97,
  title = "{R}econfigurable {C}omputing",
  author= "Gook, Roger",
  editor= "Bakkers, Andr\`{e} W. P.",
  pages = "87--87",
  booktitle= "{P}roceedings of {W}o{TUG}-20: {P}arallel {P}rogramming and {J}ava",
  isbn= "90 5199 336 6",
  year= "1997",
  month= "mar",
  abstract= "The name may be familiar of old to the WoTUG community, but
     it has now been adopted by one of the fastest growing
     sectors of the silicon industry. Reconfigurable Computers
     are computing systems whose hardware architecture can be
     modified by software to suit the application at hand. The
     core component is the FPGA. Remarkable performance gains are
     achieved by placing an algorithm in an FPGA for embedded
     applications, compared with using a microprocessor or DSP.
     This is because an FPGA takes advantage of hardware
     parallelism while reducing the timing overheads needed for
     general-purpose microprocessor applications. For example the
     time taken by load/store operations and instruction decoding
     can be eliminated. Reconfiguration enables the FPGA to
     provide a problem specific computer for highly optimised
     application performance. Just as high level programming
     languages liberated the first microprocessors programming
     languages will liberate the FPGA. The first of these
     languages to become commercially available is Handel-C.
     Handel-C is based on the CSP Model; it was developed by the
     Hardware Compilation Group at the University of Oxford and
     is to be marketed by ESL. The Handel-C tools enable a
     software engineer to target directly FPGAs in a similar
     fashion to classical microprocessor cross-compiler
     development tools, without recourse to a Hardware
     Description Language. Thereby allowing the software engineer
     to directly realise the raw real-time processing capability
     of the FPGA. The skills and expertise gained by the WoTUG,
     provide the group with a competitive advantage to develop
     the innovative algorithms, applications and products in this
     domain."
}

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