Harmonic-Summing Module of SKA on FPGA-Optimizing the Irregular Memory Accesses

• Published in: IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 624 - 636
• Main Authors: Wang, Haomiao, Thiagaraj, Prabu, Sinnen, Oliver
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.03.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Acceleration; Caching; Energy costs; Energy dissipation; Field programmable gate arrays; Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); Gate arrays; Graphics processing units; harmonic summing; Indexes; irregular memory access optimization; Kernel; Kernels; Modules; Open Computing Language (OpenCL); Optimization; Pulsars; Radio telescopes; Searching; Signal processing

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