White Paper: Breaking Memory Bandwidth Barriers using High Bandwidth Memory FPGA
Abstract:
The release of Virtex Ultrascale+™ High Bandwidth Memory(HBM) FPGA devices, opens up whole new areas of memory bound applications to the benefit of power efficient FPGA acceleration. A recent increasing trend has been to target a variety of memory bound applications to GPU systems, simply because of their significant memory bandwidth advantage over the CPU, and this is despite the application not having any need for the GPUs primary functionality: the very high performance parallel floating point arithmetic. With the advent of FPGAs with similar external memory bandwidth, but much more flexible and higher internal memory bandwidth configurability, more customized and energy efficient accelerated solutions for these problems are now possible.
About Alpha Data
Established in 1993, Alpha Data is a world leader in FPGA platforms and systems. The company supplies essential hardware and development tools to companies developing innovative systems for high performance computing, defense, communications, signal processing, instrumentation and life sciences applications. Its products and services provide an integrated framework from prototype-to-production and support a variety of protocols and standards including CAPI, PCIe, OpenCL, CompactPCI, XMC, VPX, PMC/PMC-X, VME/VXS, and reconfigurable XRM-IO hardware formats. For more information on Alpha Data and its products, please visit www.alpha-data.com
