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A many-core overlay for high performance embedded computing on FPGAS

Publication . Véstias, Mário; Neto, Horácio

In this work, we propose a configurable many-core overlay for high-performance embedded computing. The size of internal memory, supported operations and number of ports can be configured independently for each core of the overlay. The overlay was evaluated with matrix multiplication, LU decomposition and Fast-Fourier Transform (FFT) on a ZYNQ-7020 FPGA platform. The results show that using a system-level many-core overlay avoids complex hardware design and still provides good performance results.

2014-09Conference object

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Improving the area of fast parallel decimal multipliers

Publication . Véstias, Mário; Cláudio de Campos Neto, Horácio

Financial and commercial applications depend on decimal arithmetic because they must produce results that match exactly those obtained by human calculations. Decimal multiplication is a frequently used operation in these applications and also in the design of decimal floating-point units. In this paper we propose a new architecture for parallel decimal multiplication that improves the area of previous decimal multipliers while keeping the best performances. A decimal adder [1] based on a mixed BCD/excess-6 representation of the operands is utilized. A new partial product generation unit is proposed based on a 5221 recoding of the multiplier digits. With the proposed multiplier, we are able to improve on state-of-the-art parallel decimal multipliers targeting LUT-6 FPGAs. Compared to previous decimal multipliers, implementation results for 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 34-digits show that the proposed multiplier achieves over 20% better area without performance degradation.

2018-05-22Journal article

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TypOn: the microbial typing ontology

Publication . Vaz, Cátia; Francisco, Alexandre P.; Silva, Mickael; Jolley, Keith A.; Bray, James E.; Pouseele, Hannes; Rothganger, Joerg; Ramirez, Mário; Carriço, João A.

Bacterial identification and characterization at subspecies level is commonly known as Microbial Typing. Currently, these methodologies are fundamental tools in Clinical Microbiology and bacterial population genetics studies to track outbreaks and to study the dissemination and evolution of virulence or pathogenicity factors and antimicrobial resistance. Due to advances in DNA sequencing technology, these methods have evolved to become focused on sequence-based methodologies. The need to have a common understanding of the concepts described and the ability to share results within the community at a global level are increasingly important requisites for the continued development of portable and accurate sequence-based typing methods, especially with the recent introduction of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies. In this paper, we present an ontology designed for the sequence-based microbial typing field, capable of describing any of the sequence-based typing methodologies currently in use and being developed, including novel NGS based methods. This is a fundamental step to accurately describe, analyze, curate, and manage information for microbial typing based on sequence based typing methods.

2014-10-18Journal article

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