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Floating Point Vector Processing on an FPGA

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Memory Hierarchy<br />

• Supports modified Harvard style memory<br />

architecture<br />

• Separate instructi<strong>on</strong> <strong>an</strong>d data memory in local <strong>on</strong>chip<br />

RAM<br />

• Unified main memory (in other <strong>on</strong>‐chip RAM)<br />

• Local <strong>on</strong> chip RAM reduces traffic <strong>on</strong> the system bus<br />

• Program <strong>an</strong>d data size are limited by local <strong>on</strong>‐chip<br />

RAM size<br />

– <str<strong>on</strong>g>Vector</str<strong>on</strong>g> code is more compact th<strong>an</strong> scalar code!

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