Research Article

A Streaming High-Throughput Linear Sorter System with Contention Buffering

Table 5

ILS FPGA area.

Linear sorters, Total slices Slices/node Area overhead

1 278 17.4 2.3%
2 641 20.0 17.6%
4 1294 20.2 18.8%
8 2612 20.4 20.0%
16 5250 20.5 20.6%