eMIPS

Tightly integrating reconfigurable logic alongside a microprocessor presents some unique opportunities and challenges. The eMIPS project looks at how a dynamically extensible processor can be built, what support structure is necessary for them to be efficient and practical, and what new capabilities they can offer.

• System Architecture and Implementation
• Operating System Support
• Hardware Generation from Software Binaries
• Case Studies and Applications
• System Verification and Debugging
• Extensible and Configurable Peripherals
• Power management for FPGA devices

Improving Reconfigurable Computing Platforms

Developing and executing applications on FPGAs is very different compared to traditional software running on a microprocessor.  We investigate ways to make FPGA applications easier to develop/run and more reliable.

• Application Specification and Verification
• Hardware/Software Communication API
• Tools and Systems for Partial Reconfiguration
• Security Concerns

Accelerating Applications with FPGAs

There is a wide variety of computationally-difficult business and datacenter applications that can be accelerated with the help of FPGAs.

• Offloading Communication Protocol Processing
• Encryption
• Spam Filtering
• Quantifying Speedup and Characterizing FPGA-Appropriate Applications