Developing processor-compatible C-code for FPGA hardware acceleration

Developing processor-compatible C-code for FPGA hardware acceleration:

Developing processor-compatible C-code for FPGA hardware acceleration David Pellerin and Brian Durwood, Impulse Accelerated Technologies 8/21/2011 3:07 PM EDT This article describes an iterative process for converting C code to run on FPGAs with or without processor cores, how to identify which code sections can best benefit from hardware acceleration, and coding styles to use to retain commonality. FPGAs are becoming increasingly popular with software teams to accelerate critical portions of their code. In most cases these teams already have processing stacks and applications written in C that target embedded microprocessors or servers. For applications that require acceleration, a logical next step is to offload some portion of the code to an FPGA. A good way to do this is to migrate portions of the working microprocessor system to an FPGA while keeping the code base com...

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