Characterization and parameterization of a pipeline reconfigurableFPGA
Moe, M.; Schmit, H.; Goldstein, S.C.
FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, 1998. Proceedings. IEEE Symposium on
Volume , Issue , 15-17 Apr 1998 Page(s):294 - 295
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/FPGA.1998.707923
Summary:The article defines a class of architectures for pipeline
reconfigurable FPGAs by parameterizing a generic model. This class of
architecture is sufficiently general to allow exploration of the most
important design trade-offs. The parameters include the word size and
LUT size, the number of global busses and registers associated with each
logic block, and the horizontal interconnect within each stripe. We have
developed an area model for the architecture that allows us to quickly
estimate the area of an instance of the architectural class as a
function of the parameter values. We compare the estimates generated by
this model to one instance of the architecture that we have designed and
fabricated
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