Abstract
Free-text database searching is a natural candidate for acceleration by run-time reconfigurable custom computing machines. We describe a fully pipelined search machine architecture for scoring the relevance of textual documents against approximately 100 relevant target words, with provision for limited regular expression matching and error tolerance. An implementation on the SPACE custom computing platform indicates that throughput in the order of 20 megabytes per second is achievable on Algotronix FPGAs if a locally synchronous design style is adopted and global communications minimized. Partial reconfiguration of the datapath at run-time, in around 3 seconds, serves to maximize the density of data storage on the machine and correspondingly avoid costly input from the environment.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 10-17 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, Proceedings |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 1996 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 1996 IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines - Napa Valley, United States Duration: 17 Apr 1996 → 19 Apr 1996 |