Floorplacement in Dynamic Reconfigurable FPGA-based Systems : An innovative Time-Driven Reconfiguration Aware Floorplanner and Placer

ISBN-13: 9783639175035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 116 str.

Alessio Montone

Opis

Nowadays one of the most important design style forVery Large Scale Intergrated (VLSI) circuits isrepresented by Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA).Since their introduction in the early 90s, FPGAsprovided new challenges to the existing VLSI designautomation techniques.FPGAs, due to their internal architecture, requirenew techniques (or improvement to the existing ones)for each step of the design ow. The oorplanningautomation for FPGAs is a current research topic, inorder to face the new challenges provided by FPGAs.FPGAs presents two new aspects with respect toclassical VLSI design automation techniques: ResourceHeterogeneity and Reconfigurability. This book focuses on the problem of nding an areaassignment for each module, i.e. nd an area where ithas to be con gured. Aim of this book is to provide aformalization of the problem and an approach (dividedin three algorithms) to solve such problems. Theinnovative contribution of this book consists infacing area assignment problem taking concurrentlyinto account FPGAs heterogeneity and recon gurationlimits. Furthermore the proposed approach takes intoaccount inter-module communication issues.

O autorze

Alessio Montone: received the M. Sc. in Computer Engineer from
both Politecnico di Milano and Torino, and the M.Sc. in CS from
the Univ. of Illinois (UIC). He is now in ENEL.

Marco D. Santambrogio: received his M.Sc and Ph.D. in Computer
Engineer from the Politecnico di Milano, and a M.Sc. in CS from
the UIC. He is now a Postdoc Fellow at the MIT.