Rapid development of high performance floating-point pipelines for scientific simulation

20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 8-

  Lienhart, G ^a   Kugel, A ^a   Manner R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

FLOATING POINT OPERATORS; FLOATING POINT PIPELINES; SYNTHESIZABLE HARDWARES;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847123710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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