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The Meshotron: A Network of Specialized Hardware Units for 3-D Digital Waveguide Mesh Acoustic Model Parallelization

Authors: Campos, Guilherme; Barros, Sara

AES Convention 128 · Paper 8054 · May 2010

Abstract

This paper presents the project of a computing network – the “Meshotron” – specifically designed for large-scale parallelisation of three-dimensional Digital Waveguide Mesh (3D DWM) room acoustic models. It discusses the motivation of the project, its advantages and the architecture envisaged for the application-specific hardware (ASH) units to form the network. The initial stages involve the development of a software prototype based on the rectangular mesh topology, using appropriate hardware simulation tools, and the design and test of FPGA-based scattering units for air and boundary nodes.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 128
AES Convention
128
Paper number
8054
Publication date
May 6, 2010
Session subject
Room Acoustics, Sound Reinforcement, and Instrumentation
Affiliation
IEETA - University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper