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Proceedings of the 22nd EUROMICRO Conference
The Design of a Specialised Processor for the Simulation of Sintering
Prague, Czech Republic
September 02-September 05
ISBN: 0-8186-7487-3
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A. Postula, D. Abramson, P. Logothetis, "The Design of a Specialised Processor for the Simulation of Sintering," EUROMICRO Conference, pp. 0501, Proceedings of the 22nd EUROMICRO Conference, 1996.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/EURMIC.1996.546475,
author = {A. Postula and D. Abramson and P. Logothetis},
title = {The Design of a Specialised Processor for the Simulation of Sintering},
journal ={EUROMICRO Conference},
volume = {0},
year = {1996},
isbn = {0-8186-7487-3},
pages = {0501},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/EURMIC.1996.546475},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - CONF
JO - EUROMICRO Conference
TI - The Design of a Specialised Processor for the Simulation of Sintering
SN - 0-8186-7487-3
SP
EP
A1 - A. Postula,
A1 - D. Abramson,
A1 - P. Logothetis,
PY - 1996
KW - special purpose computers; specialised processor; sintering simulation; Monte-Carlo simulation; metallurgical sintering; commercially available gate array technology; FPGAs; Xilinx FPGA; Aptix FPIC switch technology
VL - 0
JA - EUROMICRO Conference
ER -
 
A. Postula, Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queensland Univ., Brisbane, Qld., Australia
D. Abramson, Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queensland Univ., Brisbane, Qld., Australia
P. Logothetis, Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queensland Univ., Brisbane, Qld., Australia
Abstract: This paper presents the design decisions encountered during the development of a specialised processor for the Monte-Carlo simulation of metallurgical sintering. Several possible architectures are presented. We show that such a specialised processor using commercially available gate array technology can solve the same problem more than 100 times faster than a modern high-end workstation. Even using slower FPGAs it is possible to achieve a speedup of over 50 times faster than a workstation, which supports the concept of programmable special purpose computers attached to general purpose machines. A prototype of the processor is now being built using Xilinx FPGA and Aptix FPIC switch technology.
Index Terms:
special purpose computers; specialised processor; sintering simulation; Monte-Carlo simulation; metallurgical sintering; commercially available gate array technology; FPGAs; Xilinx FPGA; Aptix FPIC switch technology
Citation:
A. Postula, D. Abramson, P. Logothetis, "The Design of a Specialised Processor for the Simulation of Sintering," euromicro, pp.0501, Proceedings of the 22nd EUROMICRO Conference, 1996
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