Data processing on FPGAs /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool,
[2013]
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on data management ;
#35. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | Roughly a decade ago, power consumption and heat dissipation concerns forced the semiconductor industry to radically change its course, shifting from sequential to parallel computing. Unfortunately, improving performance of applications has now become much more difficult than in the good old days of frequency scaling. This is also affecting databases and data processing applications in general, and has led to the popularity of so-called data appliances, specialized data processing engines, where software and hardware are sold together in a closed box. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) increasingly play an important role in such systems. FPGAs are attractive because the performance gains of specialized hardware can be significant, while power consumption is much less than that of commodity processors. On the other hand, FPGAs are way more flexible than hard-wired circuits (ASICs) and can be integrated into complex systems in many different ways, e.g., directly in the network for a high-frequency trading application. This book gives an introduction to FPGA technology targeted at a database audience. In the first few chapters, we explain in detail the inner workings of FPGAs. ?en we discuss techniques and design patterns that help mapping algorithms to FPGA hardware so that the inherent parallelism of these devices can be leveraged in an optimal way. Finally, the book will illustrate a number of concrete examples that exploit different advantages of FPGAs for data processing. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 104 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-100) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1627050612 (electronic bk.) 9781627050616 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 2153-5426 ; |
| DOI: | 10.2200/S00514ED1V01Y201306DTM035 |