FPGA Acceleration by Dynamically-Loaded Hardware Libraries [pdf]

Re:FPGA Acceleration by Dynamically-Loaded Hardware Librarie... by CalChris on Sunday October 23, 2016 @02:11PM (#12774633)

There was a company, GigaOps, back in the 90s that did this.

http://arith.stanford.edu/courses/abstracts/gigaops.html

Their MVP was accelerating Photoshop effects plugins but they developed a decent C like language for general kernels.

Way ahead of its time.

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Re:FPGA Acceleration by Dynamically-Loaded Hardware Librarie... by rch on Sunday October 23, 2016 @02:25PM (#12774694)

I still remember sitting through a CS colloquium in the late 90s on the potential of GPU acceleration, and being utterly devastated that it was obviously going to sideline this type of FPGA work for a long time.

Even if progress never stopped in certain niche areas, I'm happy to see it clawing back into the light of day.

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Re:FPGA Acceleration by Dynamically-Loaded Hardware Librarie... by RandomOpinion on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:40PM (#12775066)

There actually was a fair bit of research on dynamically loading hardware modules into FPGAs on the fly going all the way back to the '90s. IEEE's International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (http://fccm.org/2016/previous.html#past) had a "Run Time Reconfiguration" section in the '90s that's specific to papers that use that mechanism.

It's nice to see that research is still advancing in this area.

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