MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA - February 24, 2008 — DSPlogic's President, Michael Babst, has been invited to discuss FPGA Acceleration at the Designing with Extreme Parallelism Workshop, part of FPGA08 - The Sixteenth ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays . The topic of Dr. Babst's discussion will be "Hybrid CPU/FPGA Computing and Applications: Achieving Performance, Productivity, Portability."
Dr. Babst will join other leading technologists presenting at the workshop, including:
- David Kirk, Chief Scientist, NVIDIA
- Andres Takach, Chief Scientist, C-Based Design, Mentor Graphics
- Tarek El-Ghazawi, The George Washington University
- Fabrizio Petrini, Cell Solutions Department, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Stefan Mohl, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, Mitrionics AB
Designing with Extreme Parallelism - Workshop Description
Modern FPGAs can implement large, custom compute engines that are designed to exploit extreme amounts of parallel computation. Through parallelism, these systems achieve orders of magnitude higher performance than the fastest microprocessors. Building such custom compute engines with existing hardware design languages is too difficult and time-consuming. For this to become mainstream technology, the task of designing such parallel systems must be as simple as possible. Thus, high-level languages are needed which can specify a custom compute engine or be compiled to run on predesigned parallel systems. In this workshop, we will examine several approaches for specifying extremely parallel computations in high-level languages. These can be used to build parallel systems in FPGAs, or they can be used to specify parallel computations in other competing architectures. By examining several different approaches, one gains insight into the best approach for solving a given problem. Ideally, this will also inspire new approaches for designing with extreme parallelism
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DSPlogic is a leading provider of high-quality, FPGA-based, digital signal processing products and services. DSPlogic’s set of algorithm-to-FPGA design tools helps customers rapidly develop verified algorithm implementations using today’s leading FPGA platforms. DSPlogic serves organizations ranging from small start-ups, to Fortune 500 companies, to U.S. government agencies. Go to www.dsplogic.com for more information.
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