The Kernel Accelerator Device

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Reconfigurable computing for the kernel

KAD is an interdisciplinary development project which consists of kernel driver programming, fpga programming (VHDL/Verilog) and hardware development. There is no working KAD at the moment, but our aim is to develop such a device under the GPL with much support from everyone who likes to do so. The development will be carried out from bottom up by integrating existing components into the kad.

This is a follow up to the lecture held at 21c3. We want to talk about the development and discuss the architecture.

Description

1. Introduction
   will be taken from my 21c3 lecture to make the folks familiar with the project.
2. Technical Details / Project Status
   2.a Wishbone Board-Level-Bus and Bus-extender concepts
   2.b Extension connectors
   2.c User-FPGA-Reconfiguration engine
   2.d Bridge-FPGA and Boot-Up
   2.e PCI, PCI-Express
3. EDA stuff (GNU EDA, component librarys, Xilinx Webpack and the like)
4. Discussion, Architecture, Ideas

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• KAD

Speakers

• Ludwig Jaffe

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