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Marcela Zuluaga, Peter A. Milder and Markus Püschel (Proc. Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 1245-1253, 2012)
Computer Generation of Streaming Sorting Networks
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Sorting networks offer great performance but become prohibitively expensive for large data sets. We present a domain-specific language and compiler to automatically generate hardware implementations of sorting networks with reduced area and optimized for latency or throughput. Our results show that the generator produces a wide range of Pareto-optimal solutions that both compete with and outperform prior sorting hardware.
Keywords: IP cores for FPGA/ASIC, SortingMore information:
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