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This book describes an alternative approach to direct mapping loops described in high-level languages onto FPGAs. Different from other approaches, this technique does not inherit from software pipelining techniques. The control is distributed over operations, thus a finite state machine is not necessary to control the order of operations, allowing efficient hardware implementations. The specification of a hardware block is done by means of LALP, a domain specific language specially designed to help the application of the techniques. While the language syntax resembles C, it contains certain constructs that allow programmer interventions to enforce or relax data dependences as needed, and so optimize the performance of the generated hardware.

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Ricardo Menotti holds a doctorate and master in Computer Science at the University of SÆo Paulo (2005 and 2010). He is currently a professor at the Federal Technological University of Paraná. He has experience in computer science, with emphasis on Hardware, Reconfigurable Computing and Compilers.

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