In this paper we describe DPFPA (Double Precision Floating Point Accelerator), a FPGA-based coprocessor interfaced to the CPU through standard bus connections; it is conceived to accelerate double precision floating point operations, featuring two double precision floating point units, a pipelined adder and a pipelined multiplier with a suitable number of stages. We tested its performance by implementing a Montecarlo-Metropolis simulation of a dipolar system, using a proper software development environment designed and realized in our laboratory. DPFPA can provide a speed-up equal to 4, with respect last generation PC, showing also a good scalability in terms of clock frequency, memory capability and number of computing units

High performance computing through SoC coprocessors

DANESE, GIOVANNI;LEPORATI, FRANCESCO;BERA, MARCO;GIACHERO, MAURO;NAZZICARI, NELSON DAVIDE;SPELGATTI, ALVARO
2010-01-01

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In this paper we describe DPFPA (Double Precision Floating Point Accelerator), a FPGA-based coprocessor interfaced to the CPU through standard bus connections; it is conceived to accelerate double precision floating point operations, featuring two double precision floating point units, a pipelined adder and a pipelined multiplier with a suitable number of stages. We tested its performance by implementing a Montecarlo-Metropolis simulation of a dipolar system, using a proper software development environment designed and realized in our laboratory. DPFPA can provide a speed-up equal to 4, with respect last generation PC, showing also a good scalability in terms of clock frequency, memory capability and number of computing units
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