Paper Info
Title
Hardware modelling of cellular automata: the game of life case
Abstract
In this paper a study about the modelling, simulation and implementation on reconfigurable hardware of the Conway's Game of Life is shown. The Game of Life is a very popular case of cellular automata. The purpose of this study was to know the capability to model cellular automata by means of the high level hardware description language Handel-C, and to determine a first approximation to the hardware performance of the algorithm by means of the simulation of the implementation on reconfigurable FPGA devices. We can say, thanks to the found results, that the employed modelling technique allows us to prototype easily in short time this kind of algorithms, and the obtained simulation timing results are better than the found in a software version, up to a determined high number of iterations of the game.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-75867-9_74
EUROCAST
Keywords
Field
DocType
high number,reconfigurable hardware,reconfigurable fpga device,cellular automaton,popular case,life case,high level hardware description,simulation timing result,modelling technique,language handel-c,hardware performance,cellular automata,hardware description language,fpga,reconfigurable computing
Cellular automaton,Game of life,Computer science,FpgaC,Field-programmable gate array,Theoretical computer science,Computer hardware,Hardware description language,Reconfigurable computing,Software versioning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4739
0302-9743
3-540-75866-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan A. Gómez-Pulido120221.36
Juan M. Matas-Santiago200.34
Francisco Pérez-Rodríguez300.34
Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez4741113.05
Juan Manuel Sánchez-Pérez527830.84
Francisco Fernández de Vega644241.14