DEFACTO: A Design Environment for Adaptive Computing Technology

Abstract

This report describes the activities of the DEFACTO project, a Design Environment for Adaptive Computing Technology funded under the DARPA Adaptive Computing Systems and Just-In-Time-Hardware programs. The goal of DEFACTO is to derive system-level implementations of mappings to FPGA-based systems, from a high-level algorithmic description in standard C. We have demonstrated synthesis time reductions to 100-10000X with the automated design space exploration algorithm. The current reduction in design time, including human effort, has been approximately 40-60X for two case studies, SLD from Sandia ATR and Sobel edge detection. We have demonstrated end-to-end mapping on the Annapolis Wildstar board for both examples, with no minimal intervention, at DarpaTech on 31 July 2002.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA415637

Entities

People

  • Mary Hall
  • Pedro Diniz

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Access Time
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Case Studies
  • Change Detection
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Vision
  • Delay Lines
  • Detection
  • Environment
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Image Processing
  • Parallel Computing
  • Space Exploration
  • Standards
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space