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18th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 4th International Conference on Embedded Systems Design (VLSID'05)
On-Line Synthesis for Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs
Kolkata, India
January 03-January 07
ISBN: 0-7695-2264-5
Renqiu Huang, University of Cincinnati
Ranga Vemuri, University of Cincinnati
An important application of dynamically and partially reconfigurable computing platforms is in dynamic task allocation and execution. On-line synthesis, on-line placement and on-line routing are the three essential steps in implementing an incoming task on the FPGA during run-time. Whereas there has been some research in on-line placement, on-line synthesis received relatively little attention. In this paper, we present what is believed to be the first on-line synthesis methodology for partially reconfigurable FPGAs. In on-line synthesis, time for synthesis should be kept low while ensuring the placeability of the synthesized design on the FPGA in the available empty area and meeting the performance requirements. We ensure placeability by considering and maintaining the available area on the FPGA surface as a collection of maximal empty rectangles. The proposed synthesizer allocates the FPGA resources adaptively and is incremental in nature. The algorithm is designed to be linear in terms of the number of operations to ensure its on-line usage. Our experimental results demonstrate the advantages of the proposed approach.
Citation:
Renqiu Huang, Ranga Vemuri, "On-Line Synthesis for Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs," vlsid, pp.663-668, 18th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 4th International Conference on Embedded Systems Design (VLSID'05), 2005
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