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5th IEEE Symposium on FPGA-Based Custom Computing Machines (FCCM '97)
Napa Valley, CA
April 16-April 18
ISBN: 0-8186-8159-4
T.J. Callahan, California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
J. Wawrzynek, California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Widespread acceptance of FPGA-based reconfigurable coprocessors will be expedited if compilation time for FPGA configurations can be reduced to be comparable to software compilation. This research achieves this goal, generating complete datapath layouts in fractions of a second rather than hours. Our algorithm, adapted from instruction selection in compilers, packs multiple operations into single rows of CLBs when possible, while preserving a regular bit-slice layout. Furthermore, placement and thus routing delays are considered simultaneously with packing, so that the total delay, not just the CLB delay, is optimized.
Index Terms:
reconfigurable architectures; FPGA mapping; placement; configurable computing; reconfigurable coprocessors; datapath layouts
Citation:
T.J. Callahan, J. Wawrzynek, "Datapath-oriented FPGA mapping and placement for configurable computing," fccm, pp.234, 5th IEEE Symposium on FPGA-Based Custom Computing Machines (FCCM '97), 1997
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