FPGA: An Important Hardware Accelerator
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Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware designed to perform specific functions more efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose central processing unit. The idea is that any task is computable faster by improving the hardware rather than the software. FPGA (field-programmable gate array) and ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) are the most known hardware accelerators. ASICs are integrated circuits made for specific use. Once manufactured in the industry, ASICs are not reconfigurable. In contrast, the customer to suit a given application can configure FPGAs. The configuration is stored in the SRAM, which has no write limit. The performance offered by the FPGAs can outweigh the general-purpose central processing unit in some applications. They support several parallel computations applications and implemented in single clock execution time. Deep learning frameworks are still in their early stage...