Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
Dynamic Precision Management for Loop Computations on Reconfigurable Architectures
Napa California
April 21-April 23
ISBN: 0-7695-0375-6
Reconfigurable architectures promise significant performance benefits by customizing the configurations to suit the computations. Variable precision for computations is one important method of customization for which reconfigurable architectures are well suited. This paper develops a formal methodology to manage the variable precision computations. The class of computations that are considered are loops in applications programs which accumulate values with increasing precision as the iterations progress.
Index Terms:
Reconfigurable Computing, Precision, Loops
Citation:
Kiran Bondalapati, Viktor K. Prasanna, "Dynamic Precision Management for Loop Computations on Reconfigurable Architectures," fccm, pp.249, Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 1999