18th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 4th International Conference on Embedded Systems Design (VLSID'05)
A Novel Approach to Minimizing Reconfiguration Cost for LUT-Based FPGAs
Kolkata, India
January 03-January 07
ISBN: 0-7695-2264-5
This paper proposes a novel approach to reducing the size of FPGA reconfiguration bitstreams by fixing appropriate orders for LUT inputs. With such LUT input orders, memory locations that need to be altered during partial reconfiguration are relocated into common frames. We present a novel problem formulation that relates the number of frames (that need to be downloaded into FPGAs) to the number of minterms of a specially constructed logic function. A heuristic procedure is developed to solve the formulated problem in polynomial time. The proposed methodology is validated by experiments conducted on Xilinx Virtex FPGA platform. Considerable reduction on the size of reconfiguration bitstreams have been observed from our experimental results.
Citation:
Krishna Prasad Raghuraman, Haibo Wang, Spyros Tragoudas, "A Novel Approach to Minimizing Reconfiguration Cost for LUT-Based FPGAs," vlsid, pp.673-676, 18th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 4th International Conference on Embedded Systems Design (VLSID'05), 2005