On-chip hardware accelerators for data processing and combinatorial search

Data processing and combinatorial search are widely used techniques in the scope of information and communication. Examples of practical applications are sorting, frequent items encountering, matrix/set covering, graph/map coloring, data mining, priority management, and many others. Often information/data processing that involves the listed above tasks has to be done in embedded systems where high performance needs to be achieved in portable and low-cost devices integrating multiple functions and capabilities. An efficient development technique for such systems is hardware/software co-design with the use of programmable systems-on-chip that are highly integrated, easily customizable/configurable and permit broad parallelism to be supported that is the primary way to accelerate computations. The tutorial is dedicated to such a design technique.