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With the advances in VLSI technology over the past few decades, several software applications got a ‘free’ performance boost, without needing any code redesign. The steadily increasing clock rates and higher memory bandwidths resulted in improved performance with zero software cost. However, more recently, the gain in the single-core performance of general-purpose processors has diminished due to the decreased rate of increase of operating frequencies.
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Gulati, K., Khatri, S.P. (2010). Introduction. In: Hardware Acceleration of EDA Algorithms. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0944-2_1
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