Advances in FPGA tools and techniques
Juan Felipe León Pulido2005, Microprocessors and Microsystems
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This Special Issue on FPGA Tools and Techniques presents a collection of state-of-the-art papers discussing the advancements in FPGA technology and associated tools. The papers emphasize the importance of high-quality tools that enhance FPGA programmability and performance, while also exploring new techniques arising from the growing relevance of reconfigurable computing. Six significant papers were selected that together provide insights into the current landscape of FPGA development, reflecting both hardware and software perspectives.
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Recent Trends in FPGA Architectures and Applications
2008
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FPGA design automation: A survey
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Design automation or computer-aided design (CAD) for field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has played a critical role in the rapid advancement and adoption of FPGA technology over the past two decades. The purpose of this paper is to meet the demand for an up-todate comprehensive survey/tutorial for FPGA design automation, with an emphasis on the recent developments within the past 5-10 years. The paper focuses on the theory and techniques that have been, or most likely will be, reduced to practice. It covers all major steps in FPGA design flow which includes: routing and placement, circuit clustering, technology mapping and architecture-specific optimization, physical synthesis, RT-level and behavior-level synthesis, and power optimization. We hope that this paper can be used both as a guide for beginners who are embarking on research in this relatively young yet exciting area, and a useful reference for established researchers in this field.
Design Tools and Reusable Libraries for FPGA-Based Digital Circuits
2003
This paper suggests tools that provide significant improvements in the design and verification of FPGAbased digital circuits. These tools include reusable specifications of hardware components (modules) that have been proposed for two types of CAD environments; Xilinx ISE 5.x and Celoxica DK1. The components can be employed to implement both application-specific blocks from the selected area (mainly from the scope of combinatorial computations) and a number of interfaces that are very useful for interaction and data exchange with devices attached to a FPGA, such as LCD and touch panels, bus controllers, etc. The designed modules can be easily integrated into any application-specific digital system and used for visualizing the results, fast data transfer, debugging of internal sub-circuits, etc. They were constructed in such a way that their functionality can be either fixed or modifiable (both statically and dynamically). The latter capability was provided with the aid of re-loadable RAM-based blocks. To illustrate the capabilities of the tools suggested, four design examples are discussed. Additional materials for this paper are available in the form of a number of tutorials and projects for FPGAs that can be accessed through the Internet.
FPGA structures for high speed and low overhead dynamic circuit specialization
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Innovate or perish: FPGA physical design
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