Pre-architectural performance estimation for ASIP design based on abstract processor models

JF Eusse, C Williams, LG Murillo… - 2014 International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Application Specific Instruction Set Processors (ASIPs) seek for an optimal
performance/area/energy trade-off for a given algorithm. In all current design methodologies …

Caching architecture for flexible fpga ray tracing platform

S Collinson, O Sinnen - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2017 - Elsevier
Ray tracing is a computationally intensive task required by movie-makers to create the
highly realistic images they require for motion pictures. GPUs currently dominate as …

Fast digital rendering for special effects

S Collinson, J Morris - 22nd International Conference on Field …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photo-realistic rendering required for movie special effects is computationally intensive,
keeping large server clusters occupied for months. To speed up this process, some key …

Flexible hierarchy ray tracing on FPGAs

S Collinson, O Sinnen - 2013 International Conference on Field …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rendering programs use ray tracing to artificially create photo-realistic scenes that would
otherwise be too dangerous, too costly or physically impossible to fabricate. Acceleration of …