Peter M. Athanas and Harvey F. Silverman
- Published: IEEE Computer Magazine, 1993
- DOI: 10.1109/2.204677
- Citations in Google Scholar: 519
Nominated by: Andre DeHon (editor)
This article describes PRISM, pioneering work showing that an FPGA could be used as an attached co-processor supporting application-customized instructions to accelerate applications. The PRISM work included a compiler to automatically identify and extract functions for acceleration on the FPGA.