@inproceedings{putnam2009performance,
author = {Putnam, Andrew and Eggers, Susan and Bennett, Dave and Dellinger, Eric and Mason, Jeff and Styles, Henry and Sundararajan, Prasanna and Wittig, Ralph},
title = {Performance and Power of Cache-based Reconfigurable Computing},
series = {ISCA '09},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture},
year = {2009},
month = {January},
abstract = {Many-cache is a memory architecture that efficiently supports caching in commercially available FPGAs. It facilitates FPGA programming for high-performance computing (HPC) developers by providing them with memory performance that is greater and power consumption that is less than their current CPU platforms, but without sacrificing their familiar, C-based programming environment.

Many-cache creates multiple, multi-banked caches on top of an FGPA's small, independent memories, each targeting a particular data structure or region of memory in an application and each customized for the memory operations that access it. The caches are automatically generated from C source by the CHiMPS C-to-FPGA compiler.

This paper presents the analyses and optimizations of the CHiMPS compiler that construct many-cache caches. An architectural evaluation of CHiMPS-generated FPGAs demonstrates a performance advantage of 7.8x (geometric mean) over CPU-only execution of the same source code, FPGA power usage that is on average 4.1x less, and consequently performance per watt that is also greater, by a geometric mean of 21.3x.},
publisher = {ACM},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/performance-and-power-of-cache-based-reconfigurable-computing/},
pages = {395-405},
isbn = {978-1-60558-526-0},
edition = {Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture},
}