Ed Trexel & Brian Durwood from Impulse Accelerated Technologies discuss how computational-bound offloading, System-on-Chip integration and custom processes are driving software applications into FPGAs in this article from EE Times.Video and imaging circuitry only changes one way. Higher resolution, higher frame rates, and lower power requirements (particularly for UAV applications) equates to higher capacity and complexity. This is driving some software developers to sample the technique of offloading processor functions to run in parallel in field programmable gate arrays (FPGA).
While not difficult, there can be resource, timing, and other issues that may frustrate a first-time user. New platforms and compilation techniques have made it easier (but not easy) to offload and reconfigure software code to run in hardware. This article is written by experienced professionals in the tools, IP, and platform side of FPGAs - it is aimed at software developers interested in sampling software-to-hardware compilation. It works to explain the architectural choices that need to be made and the HLL (high level language) tools approach to software-to-hardware compilation.
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About Impulse
Founded in 2002, Impulse Accelerated Technologies is a Washington State based company specialising in high performance and high reliability solutions which accelerate compute bound software modules by offloading them to FPGA. With over a decade of experience Impulse offers sophisticated tools that work with Altera FPGA-based boards from BittWare, as well as Xilinx-based FPGA modules from Extreme Engineering and DAVE Embedded Systems.
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Impulse Accelerated Technologies is represented in the UK by Sarsen Technology Ltd. Please visit www.sarsen.net for full details of the tools and services on offer.
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