Floating Point Vector Processing on an FPGA

How to do better?
• <strong>Vector</strong> Processor: potential to operate on lots of data
at the same time
– Multiple data elements stored in a vector
– Perform the same operation on all the data elements
• Eliminates loops
• FPVC does its own instruction fetch and execute
• <strong>Vector</strong> instructions ti are dense
– Reduced program code size
– Reduced dynamic instruction bandwidth
– Reduced data hazards
• Parallel execution, parallel data
– Improved performance