Practical FPGA Programming In C - Hardcover

David Pellerin; Scott Thibault

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131543180 ISBN 13: 9780131543188

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2005

Synopsis

High-performance FPGA-accelerated software applications are a growing demand in fields ranging from communications and image processing to biomedical and scientific computing. This text introduces powerful, C-based parallel-programming techniques for creating these applications, verifying them, and moving them into FPGA hardware.

About this title

From the Back Cover

C-based techniques for building high-performance, FPGA-accelerated software applications

Circuits, Devices, and Systems

C-based Techniques for Optimizing FPGA Performance, Design Flexibility, and Time to Market

Forward written by Clive "Max" Maxfield.

High-performance FPGA-accelerated software applications are a growing demand in fields ranging from communications and image processing to biomedical and scientific computing. This book introduces powerful, C-based parallel-programming techniques for creating these applications, verifying them, and moving them into FPGA hardware.

The authors bridge the chasm between "conventional" software development and the methods and philosophies of FPGA-based digital design. Software engineers will learn to look at FPGAs as "just another programmable computing resource," while achieving phenomenal performance because much of their code is running directly in hardware. Hardware engineers will master techniques that perfectly complement their existing HDL expertise, while allowing them to explore design alternatives and create prototypes far more rapidly. Both groups will learn how to leverage C to support efficient hardware/software co-design and improve compilation, debugging, and testing.

• Understand when C makes sense in FPGA development and where it fits into your existing processes

• Leverage C to implement software applications directly onto mixed hardware/software platforms

• Execute and test the same C algorithms in desktop PC environments and in-system using embedded processors

• Master new, C-based programming models and techniques optimized for highly parallel FPGA platforms

• Supercharge performance by optimizing through automated compilation

• Use multiple-process streaming programming models to deliver truly astonishing performance

• Preview the future of FPGA computing

• Study an extensive set of realistic C code examples

About the Author

Author Bio

David Pellerin is president and founder of Impulse Accelerated Technologies, a firm that serves systems designers who want to use FPGAs for hardware-based software acceleration and fast prototyping of mixed hardware/software systems. His Prentice Hall PTR books include VHDL Made Easy, Practical Design Using Programmable Logic, Digital Design Using ABEL, and Electronic Design Automation for Windows. Scott Thibault is president and founder of Green Mountain Computing Systems, developers of custom and OEM software that leverages advanced HDL and C-to-RTL expertise to improve time-to-market. Dr. Thibault holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rennes.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0131543180
• ISBN 13: 9780131543188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 428