Transforming Applications from the Control Flow to the Dataflow Paradigm

This chapter analyzes potentials of accelerating applications by transforming them from control flow to dataflow representation and mapping them directly to the hardware based on the FPGA. Firstly, potentials for improvements will be analyzed. Both reduction in execution time and power consumption will be analyzed. Transforming control flow to dataflow applications will be analyzed on a Huxley muscle model implemented using the dataflow approach.