Publications by Madhura Purnaprajna

Enhancing Design Space Exploration by Extending CPU/GPU Specifications onto FPGAs

Andreas Peter Burg, Paolo Ienne, Georgios Karakonstantis, David Novo Bruna, Madhura Purnaprajna, Gabriel Falcao Paiva Fernandes, João Maria Duarte Andrade

The design cycle for complex special-purpose computing systems is extremely costly and time-consuming. It involves a multiparametric design space exploration for optimization, followed by design verification. Designers of special purpose VLSI implementatio ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

A Case for Heterogeneous Technology-Mapping: Soft versus Hard Multiplexers

Paolo Ienne, Madhura Purnaprajna

Lookup table-based FPGAs offer flexibility but compromise on performance, as compared to custom CMOS implementations. This paper explores the idea of minimising this performance gap by using fixed, fine-grained, non-programmable logic structures in place o ...

Ieee2013

Shortening design time through multiplatform simulations with a portable OpenCL golden-model: the LDPC decoder case

Andreas Peter Burg, Paolo Ienne, Georgios Karakonstantis, David Novo Bruna, Gabriel Falcao Paiva Fernandes, Madhura Purnaprajna

Hardware designers and engineers typically need to explore a multi-parametric design space in order to ﬁnd the best conﬁguration for their designs using simulations that can take weeks to months to complete. For example, designers of special purpose chips ...

2012

Making Wide-Issue VLIW Processors Viable on FPGAs

Paolo Ienne, Madhura Purnaprajna

Soft and highly-customized processors are emerging as a common way to efficiently control large amount of computing resources available on FPGAs. Yet, some processor architectures of choice for DSP and media applications, such as wide-issue VLIW processors ...

2012