Date of Thesis
2011
Description
This thesis presents two frameworks- a software framework and a hardware core manager framework- which, together, can be used to develop a processing platform using a distributed system of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) boards. The software framework providesusers with the ability to easily develop applications that exploit the processing power of FPGAs while the hardware core manager framework gives users the ability to configure and interact with multiple FPGA boards and/or hardware cores. This thesis describes the design and development of these frameworks and analyzes the performance of a system that was constructed using the frameworks. The performance analysis included measuring the effect of incorporating additional hardware components into the system and comparing the system to a software-only implementation. This work draws conclusions based on the provided results of the performance analysis and offers suggestions for future work.
Keywords
field-programmable gate array, FPGA, distributed computing, reconfigurable computing, processing platform
Access Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Type
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Major
Electrical Engineering
First Advisor
Michael Thompson
Recommended Citation
Su, Juliana, "Design and Development of an FPGA-based Distributed Computing Processing Platform" (2011). Master’s Theses. 38.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/masters_theses/38