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Euromicro Symposium on Digital System Design (DSD'02)
Improving mW/MHz Ratio in FPGAs Pipelined Designs
Dortmund, Germany
September 04-September 06
ISBN: 0-7695-1790-0
Oswaldo Cadenas, University of Reading
Graham Megson, University of Reading
This paper presents a simple clocking technique to migrate classical synchronous pipelined designs to a synchronous functional-equivalent alternative system in the context of FPGAs. When the new pipelined design runs at the same throughput of the original design, around 30% better mW/MHz ratio was observed in Virtex-based FPGA circuits. The evaluation is done using a simple but representative and practical systolic design as an example. The technique in essence is a simple replacement of the clocking mechanism for the pipe-storage elements; however no extra design effort is needed. The results show that the proposed technique allows immediate power and area-time savings of existing designs rather than exploring potential benefits by a new logic design to the problem using the classic pipeline clocking mechanism.
Citation:
Oswaldo Cadenas, Graham Megson, "Improving mW/MHz Ratio in FPGAs Pipelined Designs," dsd, pp.276, Euromicro Symposium on Digital System Design (DSD'02), 2002
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