Synthesis of Simulink based Models for Parallel Architectures including FPGAs and Multi-core Processors for an Infrared Scene Generator System

摘要

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can substantially improve the performance of scientific and engineering applications through their massively parallel architecture. The newest FPGA components have thousands of arithmetic units and hundreds of individually and simultaneously addressable banks of memory. However, to utilize this parallelism designers have to create detailed designs in hardware description languages such as VHDL [3]. This has been a significant impediment to the more widespread use of FPGAs in engineering systems. Many engineers do their engineering analysis and system design in modeling languages such as Simulink. This paper explores the issues of implementing parallel computing systems utilizing the full extent of FPGA hardware starting with serial single thread computational models developed in Simulink and the problems in this process.