An Enhanced Hardware Description Language Implementation for Improved Design-Space Exploration in High-Energy Physics Hardware Design Export

@phdthesis{citeulike:1551344, abstract = {Detectors in High-Energy Physics (HEP) have increased tremendously in accuracy, speed and integration. Consequently HEP experiments are confronted with an immense amount of data to be read out, processed and stored. Originally low-level processing has been accomplished in hardware, while more elaborate algorithms have been executed on large computing farms. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) meet HEP's need for ever higher real-time processing performance by providing programmable yet fast digital logic resources. With the fast move from HEP Digital Signal Processing (DSPing) applications into the domain of FPGAs, related design tools are crucial to realise the potential performance gains. This work reviews Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) in respect to the special needs present in the HEP digital hardware design process. It is especially concerned with the question, how features outside the scope of mainstream digital hardware design can be implemented eciently into HDLs. It will argue that functional languages are especially suitable for implementation of domain-specific languages, including HDLs. Casestudies examining the implementation complexity of HEP-specific language extensions to the functional HDCaml HDL will prove the viability of the suggested approach.}, author = {Muecke, Manfred}, citeulike-article-id = {1551344}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://doc.cern.ch/archive/electronic/cern/preprints/thesis/thesis-2007-053.pdf}, keywords = {compiler\_design, dsl, fpgas\_in\_hep, functional, hdl, language\_design, language\_embedding, lhcb, open\_source\_eda}, month = {July}, posted-at = {2007-08-10 12:14:23}, priority = {2}, school = {Graz University of Technology}, title = {An Enhanced Hardware Description Language Implementation for Improved Design-Space Exploration in High-Energy Physics Hardware Design}, url = {http://doc.cern.ch/archive/electronic/cern/preprints/thesis/thesis-2007-053.pdf}, year = {2007} }

TY - THES ID - citeulike:1551344 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1551344 N2 - Detectors in High-Energy Physics (HEP) have increased tremendously in accuracy, speed and integration. Consequently HEP experiments are confronted with an immense amount of data to be read out, processed and stored. Originally low-level processing has been accomplished in hardware, while more elaborate algorithms have been executed on large computing farms. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) meet HEP's need for ever higher real-time processing performance by providing programmable yet fast digital logic resources. With the fast move from HEP Digital Signal Processing (DSPing) applications into the domain of FPGAs, related design tools are crucial to realise the potential performance gains. This work reviews Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) in respect to the special needs present in the HEP digital hardware design process. It is especially concerned with the question, how features outside the scope of mainstream digital hardware design can be implemented eciently into HDLs. It will argue that functional languages are especially suitable for implementation of domain-specific languages, including HDLs. Casestudies examining the implementation complexity of HEP-specific language extensions to the functional HDCaml HDL will prove the viability of the suggested approach. TI - An Enhanced Hardware Description Language Implementation for Improved Design-Space Exploration in High-Energy Physics Hardware Design PB - Graz University of Technology KW - compiler_design KW - dsl KW - fpgas_in_hep KW - functional KW - hdl KW - language_design KW - language_embedding KW - lhcb KW - open_source_eda AU - Muecke, Manfred PY - 2007/07// UR - http://doc.cern.ch/archive/electronic/cern/preprints/thesis/thesis-2007-053.pdf ER -