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Kevin Dale
Jeremy W. Sheaffer
Vinu Vijay Kumar
David P. Luebke
Greg Humphreys
Kevin Skadron
University of Virginia
We explore the application of Small-Scale Reconfigurability (SSR) to graphics hardware. SSR is an architectural technique wherein functionality common to multiple subunits is reused rather than replicated, yielding high-performance reconfigurable hardware with reduced area requirements. We show that SSR can be used effectively in programmable graphics architectures to allow double-precision computation without affecting the performance of single-precision calculations and to increase fragment shader performance with a minimal impact on chip area.
International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, 2006
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Invited extended journal version for the International Journal of Electronics (Preprint)
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