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NANOPROCESSORS: CONFIGURABLE HARDWARE ACCELERATORS FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (2003)
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@MISC{Zong03nanoprocessors:configurable,
author = {Lei Zong and Master Of Science and Bruce L. Jacob and Lei Zong},
title = {NANOPROCESSORS: CONFIGURABLE HARDWARE ACCELERATORS FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS},
year = {2003}
}
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Abstract
Today’s consumer market is driven by technology innovations. Many technologies that were not available a few years ago are quickly being adopted into common use. Equipment for these services requires micropro-cessors inside and can be regarded as embedded systems. Embedded sys-tems are designed to serve a particular functionality at a minimal cost. To improve efficiency and throughput, embedded systems uses hardware peripherals to perform sub-functionality in hardware. Because there are many vendors of embedded systems and each system is designed for a spe-cific purpose, the peripherals differ widely across systems. Applications developed for a particular system is not portable to another system. As a result, many embedded systems incorporate programmable hardware to provide flexibility. One popular use of the programmable hardware is for I/ O devices. In this work, we propose and discuss other uses for the program-mable hardware. Specifically, we have identified an I/O controller and a hardware scheduler that can be incorporated into programmable logic. Our result shows that these hardware components improve the system perfor-mance significantly at a nominal cost.
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configurable hardware accelerator embedded system embedded system minimal cost programmable logic technology innovation particular system hardware scheduler hardware component hardware peripheral program-mable hardware programmable hardware particular functionality popular use system incorporate programmable hardware common use today consumer market spe-cific purpose many vendor system perfor-mance many technology nominal cost
