FPGA Hardware acceleration of co-occurring aberrations in aCGH data

FPGA Hardware acceleration of co-occurring aberrations in aCGH data

Van der Leije, M.R.

Reinders, M.J.T. (mentor)
Van Genderen, A.J. (mentor)

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Computer Engineering

2009-08-25

Unbalanced transaction can lead to addition and deletions in genes, which can be an indication of tumor cells. This is measured with array Comparative Genomic Hybridization. To find co-occurring aberrations in DNA, an algorithm was designed. However the execution takes days to find these DNA aberrations. This thesis proposes a partial FPGA based design were the number of parallel computations can be increased. The FPGA communicates with a computer on a gigabit Ethernet, where on the FPGA a hardware based Ethernet controller is build. This design is scalable for FPGA’s, so its performance is linear to the size of the FPGA resources. On a XC4VFX12 device, a minimum speedup of a factor 3 and a maximum speedup of several hundreds is achieved.

FPGA
DNA

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2009 Van der Leije, M.R.