Implementation of three-dimensional FPGA-based FDTD solvers: An architectural overview

IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, Proceedings

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 269-270

  Durbano, J P ^a   Ortiz, F E ^b   Humphrey, J R ^b   Prather, D W ^b   Mirotznik, M S ^c  

^a EM PHOTONICS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics; Computer architecture; Differential equations; Electromagnetic coupling; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic propagation; Finite difference methods; Maxwell equations; Mesh generation; Time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTERS; COUPLINGS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MESH GENERATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLOWS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION; EXTENDED ABSTRACTS; HIGH LEVEL DESCRIPTION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; REGION OF INTEREST; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FPGA;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845629126     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.2003.1227265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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