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Tries to make a small, powerful, general-purpose CPU for FPGA's by designing it partly on top of DSP cores that most soft cores ignore.

Abstract: "Although FPGAs continue to grow in capacity, FPGA-based soft processors have grown very little becauseof the difficulty of achieving higher performance in exchange for area. Superscalar out-of-order processor microarchitectures have been used successfully for hard processors for many year...

Abstract: "This dissertation investigates the utility of a programmable VLSI analog com- puter for the solution of differential equations. To investigate the capability of analog computing in a modern context, a large VLSI circuit (100 mm^2) was designed and fabricated in a standard mixed-signal...

The Octavo soft-processor was a doctoral research project aimed at building FPGA overlay architectures by increasing the performance of soft-processors though adapting their architecture to FPGAs instead of ASICs. It works, it's fast, it proved its concepts, but it's too hard to program.

The demise of Moore's Law has led to the rise of hardware acceleration. However, the focus on accelerating stable algorithms in their entirety neglects the abundant fine-grained acceleration opportunities available in broader domains and squanders host processors' compute power. This paper presents ...