IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines Configuration Compression for the Xilinx XC6200 FPGA Napa Valley, California April 15-April 17 ISBN: 0-8186-8900-5
One of the major overheads in reconfigurable computing is the time it takes to reconfigure the devices in the system. This overhead limits the speedups possible in this exciting new paradigm. In this paper we explore one technique for reducing this overhead: the compression of configuration datastreams. We develop an algorithm, targeted to the decompression hardware imbedded in the Xilinx XC6200 series FPGA architecture, that can radically reduce the amount of data needed to transfer during reconfiguration. This results in an overall reduction of almost 4 in total bandwidth required for reconfiguration.
Citation:
Scott Hauck, Zhiyuan Li, Eric Schwabe, "Configuration Compression for the Xilinx XC6200 FPGA," fccm, pp.138, IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, 1998 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||