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If you have a question about this talk, please contact George A Constantinides. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become an increasingly important technology in accelerating scientific computing (SC). A frequent task in SC is the solution finding of systems of linear equations (LE). For finding such solution there are a number of well studied algorithms. One algorithm that belongs to the class of iterative methods for solving LEs, and has proven to be very e*cient in hardware, is the Conjugate Gradient (CG) method [1]. In this work we present a hardware CG method which takes advantage of the banded structure present in many common problems. With the flexibility provided by FPG As, this implementation employs wide-parallelization to convert the per iteration computation time for an order n matrix with band width w from \Theta(nw) clock cycles for a software implementation to \Theta(n) in hardware. It also explores deep-pipelining so that solutions to P problems are produced every \Theta(n) cycles opposed to every \Theta(Pnw) cycles in software. This talk is part of the CAS Talks series. This talk is included in these lists:
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