Occam on Field Programmable Gate Arrays - Fast Prototyping of Parallel Embedded Systems
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This paper presents experiences obtained while using a compiler that translates designs written in a parallel programming language into a form suitable for controlling a Field Programmable Gate Array. Although the initial motivation for the project was to develop tools which would assist the implementation of a distributed multi-microprocessor architecture, results have shown that the technique is also well-suited to the fast prototyping of small, parallel, embedded systems. Ke ywords: FPGA, parallel programming, occam, logic synthesis, embedded systems
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تاریخ انتشار 2000