An Introduction to Reconfigurable Computing. What is RC? RC Architectures. How did RC originate? Inside the FPGA. Mapping Algorithms to Hardware. RC Applications. Example: Dot Product. Further Reading
Reconfigurable Logic Devices. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays. Summary
Reconfigurable Computing Systems. Parallel Processing on Reconfigurable Computers. A Survey of Reconfigurable Computing Systems. Summary
Languages and Compilation. Design Cycle. Languages. High Level Compilation. Low Level Design Flow. Debugging Reconfigurable Computing Applications. Summary
Signal Processing Applications. What is Digital Signal Processing? Why Use Reconfigurable Computing for DSP? DSP Application Building Blocks. Example DSP Applications
Image Processing. RC for Image and Video Processing. Local Neighborhood Functions. Convolution. Morphology. Feature Extraction. Automatic Target Recognition. Image Matching. Evolutionary Image Processing. Summary
Network Security. Cryptographic Applications. Network Protocol Security. Summary
Bioinformatics Applications. Introduction. Applications. Dynamic Programming Algorithms. Seed-Based Heuristics. Profiles, HMMs and Language Models. Bioinformatics FPGA Accelerators. Summary
Supercomputing Applications. Introduction. Monte Carlo Simulation of Radiative Heat Transfer. Urban Road Traffic Simulation.