Related Work

In this chapter we discuss the related work, where we present some of the ideas and implementations reported by other researchers working in areas closely related to this field. First we describe the various accelerator architectures and then, discuss FPGA based accelerators. We describe the FPGA architecture as well as the EDA tool flow followed while exploring HEBs in FPGAs. We discuss "bioinformatics" domain and the two important applications belonging to this domain. We show how these applications have benefited by FPGA-based acceleration.