Energy efficient algorithms for FPGAs

Reading Assignment : 

Energy-Efficient Signal Processing Using FPGAs

Additional references:

http://ceng.usc.edu/~prasanna/   then click on Publications.

Three questions: (pick one and answer it in a one-page essay that you will hand in

to Sheng Shi on the monday following this lecture, at noon, in class):

Please be sure to include your 2-digit class ID # on your essay.

1. What are the challenges in designing energy efficient algorithms for
FPGAs?

2. Explain why E/AT can be a misleading performance metric.

3. Summarize the optimizations for matrix multiplication.