Publisher's Synopsis
This one-of-a-kind survey provides a comprehensive introduction to Reconfigurable Computing with FPGAs, a discipline that offers a 10X-100X acceleration of algorithms over microprocessors. The text explores the impact of reconfigurable hardware, built from commodity parts, on a wide range of applications: signal and image processing, network security, bioinformatics, satellites and supercomputers. Coverage includes the history of the field as well as recent advances, and an extensive bibliography of primary sources.
