ParaFPGA15: Exploring threads and trends in programmable hardware
Erik H. D'Hollander, Dirk Stroobandt, Abdellah Touhafi · Advances in parallel computing · 2016
The symposium ParaFPGA focuses on parallel techniques using FPGAs as accelerator in high performance computing. The green computing aspects of low power consumption at high performance were somewhat tempered by long design cycles and hard programmability issues. However, in recent years FPGAs have become new contenders as versatile compute accelerators because of a growing market interest, extended application domains and maturing high-level synthesis tools. The keynote paper highlights the historical and modern approaches to high-level FPGA programming and the contributions cover applications such as NP-complete satisfiability problems and convex hull image processing as well as performance evaluation, partial reconfiguration and systematic design exploration.