Development system for FPGA-based digital circuits

Author

Sklyarov, V. ; Fonseca, J. ; Monteiro, R. ; Oliveira, A. ; Melo, A. ; Lau, N. ; Skliarova, I. ; Neves, P. ; Ferrari, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Aveiro Univ., Portugal

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

266

Lastpage

267

Abstract

The paper discusses some new hardware and software tools that can be used for the design of virtual circuits based on dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs. With the aid of these tools we can implement a system that requires some, hardware resources R_c, on available hardware that has resources R_h, where R_c>R_h. The main idea of the approach supported by these tools is the rational combination of FPGA capabilities with some proposed methods for producing a modifiable specification, together with a novel technique for architectural and logic synthesis, which has been incorporated into the new design environment

Keywords

development systems; field programmable gate arrays; logic CAD; reconfigurable architectures; FPGA-based; development system; digital circuit; dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs; logic synthesis; virtual circuits; Circuit synthesis; Circuit testing; Coprocessors; Digital circuits; Digital systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Logic design; Random access memory; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 1999. FCCM '99. Proceedings. Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Napa Valley, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0375-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPGA.1999.803691

Filename

803691