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A Basic, Four Logic Cluster, Disjoint Switch Connected Fpga Architecture, Joseph Prachar
A Basic, Four Logic Cluster, Disjoint Switch Connected Fpga Architecture, Joseph Prachar
Computer Engineering
This paper seeks to describe the process of developing a new FPGA architecture from nothing, both in terms of knowledge about FPGAs and in initial design material. Specifically, this project set out to design an FPGA architecture which can implement a simple state machine type design with 10 inputs, 10 outputs and 10 states. The open source Verilog-to-Routing FPGA CAD flow tool was used in order to synthesize, place, and route HDL files onto the architecture. This project was completed in terms of the spirit of the original goals of implementing an FPGA from scratch. Although, the project resulted in …
A Proposed Approach To Hybrid Software-Hardware Application Design For Enhanced Application Performance, Alex Shipman
A Proposed Approach To Hybrid Software-Hardware Application Design For Enhanced Application Performance, Alex Shipman
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
One important aspect of many commercial computer systems is their performance; therefore, system designers seek to improve the performance next-generation systems with respect to previous generations. This could mean improved computational performance, reduced power consumption leading to better battery life in mobile devices, smaller form factors, or improvements in many areas. In terms of increased system speed and computation performance, processor manufacturers have been able to increase the clock frequency of processors up to a point, but now it is more common to seek performance gains through increased parallelism (such as a processor having more processor cores on a single …
Progressive Network Deployment, Performance, And Control With Software-Defined Networking, Daniel J. Casey
Progressive Network Deployment, Performance, And Control With Software-Defined Networking, Daniel J. Casey
Theses and Dissertations
The inflexible nature of traditional computer networks has led to tightly-integrated systems that are inherently difficult to manage and secure. New designs move low-level network control into software creating software-defined networks (SDN). Augmenting an existing network with these enhancements can be expensive and complex. This research investigates solutions to these problems. It is hypothesized that an add-on device, or "shim" could be used to make a traditional switch behave as an OpenFlow SDN switch while maintaining reasonable performance. A design prototype is found to cause approximately 1.5% reduction in throughput for one ow and less than double increase in latency, …