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12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'04)
FPGA-Based Acceleration of the 3D Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method
Napa, California
April 20-April 23
ISBN: 0-7695-2230-0
James P. Durbano, EM Photonics, Inc.
Fernando E. Ortiz, University of Delaware
John R. Humphrey, University of Delaware
Petersen F. Curt, University of Delaware
Dennis W. Prather, University of Delaware
In order to take advantage of the significant benefits afforded by computational electromagnetic techniques, such as the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method, solvers capable of analyzing realistic problems in a reasonable time frame are required. Although software-based solvers are frequently used, they are often too slow to be of practical use. To speed up computations, hardware-based implementations of the FDTD method have been recently proposed. In this paper, we present our most recent progress in the area of FPGA-based 3D FDTD accelerators. Three aspects of the design are discussed, including the host-PC interface, memory hierarchy, and computational datapath. Implementation and benchmarking results are also presented, demonstrating that this accelerator is capable of at least three-fold speedups over thirty-node PC clusters.
Citation:
James P. Durbano, Fernando E. Ortiz, John R. Humphrey, Petersen F. Curt, Dennis W. Prather, "FPGA-Based Acceleration of the 3D Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method," fccm, pp.156-163, 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'04), 2004
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