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Title: Enabling Technologies for Reconfigurable Computing Part 4: FPGAs: recent developments Wednesday, November 21, 16.00


1
Enabling Technologies for Reconfigurable
Computing Part 4FPGAs recent developments
Wednesday, November 21, 16.00 17.30 hrs.
November 21, 2001, Tampere, Finland
  • Reiner Hartenstein
  • University of
  • Kaiserslautern


2
Schedule
time slot
08.30 10.00 Reconfigurable Computing (RC)
10.00 10.30 coffee break
10.30 12.00 Stream-based Computing for RC
12.00 14.00 lunch break
14.00 15.30 Resources for RC
15.30 16.00 coffee break
16.00 17.30 FPGAs recent developments
3
gtgt Configware Market
  • Configware Market
  • FPGA Market
  • Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Hardwired IP Cores on Board
  • Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Academic Expertise
  • ASICs dead
  • Soft CPU
  • HLLs
  • Problems to be solved

4
Configware heading for mainstream
  • Configware market taking off for mainstream
  • FPGA-based designs more complex, even SoC
  • No design productivity and quality without good
    configware libraries (soft IP cores) from various
    application areas.
  • Growing no. of independent configware houses
    (soft IP core vendors) and design services
  • AllianceCORE Reference Design Alliance
  • Currently the top FPGA vendors are the key
    innovators and meet most configware demand.

5
bleeding edge designs
  • Infinite amount of gates not yet available on a
    chip
  • 3 mio gates (10 mio in 2003 ?) far away from
    "infinite"
  • Bleeding edge designs only with sophisticated EDA
    tools
  • Excessive optimization needed
  • Hardware epertise is inevitable for the designer.
  • improve and simplify the design flow the user
  • provide rich configware libraries of soft IP
    cores,
  • control appl., networking, wireless
    telecommunication, data communication, embedded
    and consumer markets.

6
Configware (soft IP Products)
  • For libraries, creation and reuse of configware
  • To search for IPs see List of all available IP
  • The AllianceCORE program is a cooperation between
    Xilinx and third-party core developers
  • The Xilinx Reference Design Alliance Program
  • The Xilinx University Program
  • LogiCORE soft IP with LogiCORE PCI Interface.
  • Consultants

7
EDA as the Key Enabler (major EDA vendors)
  • Select EDA quality / productivity, not FPGA
    architectures
  • EDA often has massive software quality problems
  • Customer highest priority EDA center of
    excellence
  • collecting EDA expertise and EDA user experience
  • to assemble best possible tool environments
  • for optimum support design teams
  • to cope with interoperability problems
  • to keep track with the EDA scene as a rapidly
    moving target
  • being fabless, FPGA vendors spend most qualified
    manpower in development of EDA, IP cores,
    applications , support
  • Xilinx and Altera are morphing into EDA
    companies.

8
OS for FPGAs
  • separate EDA software market, comparable to the
    compiler / OS market in computers,
  • Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys just jumped in.
  • lt 5 Xilinx / Altera income from EDA SW
  • Changing EDA Tools Market
  • Major configware EDA vendors
  • Altera
  • Cadence
  • Mentor Graphics
  • Synopsys
  • Xilinx

9
EDA Software for Xilinx
  • Full design flow from Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys
  • Xilinx Software AllianceEDA Program
  • Alliance Series Development System.
  • Foundation Series Development Systems.
  • Xilinx Foundation Series ISE (Integrated
    Synthesis Environment)
  • free WebPOWERED SW w. WebFitter WebPACK-ISE
  • StateCAD XE and HDL Bencher
  • Foundation Base Express
  • Foundation ISE Base Express

10
Foundation ISE Base Express
  • ModelSim Xilinx Edition (ModelSim XE)
  • Forge Compiler
  • Modular Design
  • Chipscope ILA
  • The Xilinx System Generator
  • XPower
  • JBits SDK
  • The Xilinx XtremeDSP Initiative
  • MathWorks / Xilinx Alliance
  • System Generator
  • Wind River / Xilinx alliance

11
Altera EDA
  • Altera was founded in June 1983
  • EDA synthesis, place route, and, verification
  • Quartus II APEX, Excalibur, Mercury, FLEX 6000
    families
  • MAXPLUS II FLEX, ACEX MAX families
  • Flow with Quartus II Mentor Graphics, Synopsys,
    Synplicity deliver a design design software to
    support Altera SOPC solutions.
  • Mentor only EDA vendor w. complete design
    environment f. APEX II incl. IP, design capture,
    simulation, synthesis, and h/s co-verification
  • Configware Altera offers over a hundred IP cores
  • Third party IP core design services and
    consultants

12
Cadence
  • FPGA Designer top-down FPGA design system,
  • high-level mapping, architecture-specific
    optimization,
  • Verilog,VHDL, schematic-level design entry.
  • Verilog, VHDL to Synergy (logic synthesis) and
    FPGA Designer
  • FPGAs simulated by themselves using Cadence's
    Verilog-XL or Leapfrog VHDL simulators and
  • simulated w. rest of the system design w. Logic
    Workbench board/system verification envment.
  • Libraries for the leading FPGA manufacturers.

13
Mentor Graphics
  • System Design and Verification.
  • PCB design and analysis
  • IC Design and Verification
  • shifts ASIC design flow to FPGAs (Altera, Xilinx)
  • by FPGA Advantage with IP support
  • by ModuleWare,
  • Xilinx CORE Generator
  • Altera MegaWizard integration,

14
Synopsys
  • FPGA Compiler II
  • Version of ASIC Design Compiler Ultra
  • Block Level Incremental Synthesis (BLIS)
  • ASIC lt-gt FPGA migration
  • Actel, Altera, Atmel, Cypress, Lattice, Lucent,
    Quicklogic, Triscend, Xilinx

15
gtgt FPGA Market
  • Configware Market
  • FPGA Market
  • Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Hardwired IP Cores on Board
  • Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Academic Expertise
  • ASICs dead
  • Soft CPU
  • HLLs
  • Problems to be solved

16
Top 4 PLD Manufacturers 2000
17
FPGA market 1998 / 1999
Source IC Insights Inc. Meanwhile, Xilinx
acquired Philips' MOS PLD
business, Lattice purchased Vantis. .
18
.... into every application
  • Dataquest PLD market gt 7 billion by 2003.
  • fastest growing segment of semiconductor
    market.
  • IP reuse and "pre-fabricated" components for the
    efficiency of design and use for PLDs
  • FPGAs are going into every type of application.

19
.... going into every type of applicationGordon
Bell
20
Xilinx
  • fabless FPGA semi vendor, San Jose, Ca, founded
    1984
  • key patents on FPGAs (expiring in a few years)
  • Fortune 2001 No. 14 Best Company to work for in
    (intel no. 42, hp no. 64, TI no. 65).
  • DARPA grant (Nov99) to develop Jbits API tools
    for internet reconfigurable / upgradable logic
    (w. VT)
  • Less brilliant early/mid 90ies (president Curt
    Wozniak) 1995 market share from 84 down to 62
    Dataquest
  • As designs get larger, Xilinx losed its advantage
    (bugfixes did not require to burn new chips)
  • meanwhile, weeks of expensive debug time needed

21
Xilinx Flexware
  • Virtex, Virtex-II, first w. 1 mio system gates.
  • Virtex-E series gt 3 mio system gates.
  • Virtex-EM on a copper process addit. on chip
    memory f. network switch appl.
  • The Virtex XCV3200E gt 3 million gates,
    0.15-micron technology,
  • Spartan, Spartan-XL, Spartan-II
  • for low-cost, high volume applications as ASIC
    replacements
  • Multiple I/O standards, on-chip block RAM,
    digital delay lock loops
  • eliminate phase lock loops, FIFOs, I/O xlators ,
    system bus drivers
  • XC4000XV, XC4000XL/XLA, CPLD low-cost families
  • rapid development, longer system life, robust
    field upgradability
  • support In-System Programming (ISP), in-board
    debugging,
  • test during manufacturing, field upgrades, full
    JTAG compliant interface
  • CoolRunner low power, high speed/density,
    standby mode.
  • Military Aerospace QPRO high-reliability QML
    certified
  • Configuration Storage Devices

22
Altera Flexware
  • Newer families APEX 20KE, APEX 20KC, APEX II,
    MAX 7000B, ACEX 1K, Excalibur, Mercury families.
  • Apex EP20K1500E (0.18-µ), up to 2.4 mio system
    gates,
  • APEX II (all-copper 0.13-µ) f. data path
    applications, supports many I/O standards. 1-Gbps
    True-LVDS performance
  • wQ2001, an ARM-based Excalibur device
  • Altera mainstream MAX 7000A, 3000A FLEX 6000,
    10KA, 10KE APEX 20K families.
  • Mature and other Classic, MAX 7000, 7000S,
    9000 FLEX 8000, 10K families.

23
Triscend CSoC
Kean
24
gtgt Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Configware Market
  • FPGA Market
  • Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Hardwired IP Cores on Board
  • Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Academic Expertise
  • ASICs dead
  • Soft CPU
  • HLLs
  • Problems to be solved

25
Goal away from complex design flow
à la S. Guccione
26
Overcome traditional separate design flow
à la S. Guccione
27
Overcome traditional co-processing design
separate flow -gt JBits Design Flow
à la S. Guccione
28
Embedded hardw. CPU memory cores on chip.
à la S. Guccione
29
new directions in application development
  • new directions in application development.
  • aut. partitioning compilers designer
    productivity
  • like CoDe-X (Jürgen Becker, Univ. of Karlsruhe),
  • supports Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR), a key
    enabler of error handling and fault correction by
    partial re-routing the FPGA at run time, as well
    as remote patching for upgrading, remote
    debugging, and remote repair by reconfiguration -
    even over the internet.

30
gtgt Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Configware Market
  • FPGA Market
  • Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Hardwired IP Cores on Board
  • Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Academic Expertise
  • ASICs dead
  • Soft CPU
  • HLLs
  • Problems to be solved

31
CPU use for configuration management
  • on-board microprocessor CPU is available anyhow -
    even along with a little RTOS
  • use this CPU for configuration management

RTR System Design
32
hard CPU memory core on same chip
33
Converging factors for RTR
  • Converging factors make RTR based system design
    viable
  • 1) million gate FPGA devices and co-processing
    with standard microprocessors are commonplace
  • direct implementation of complex algorithms in
    FPGAs.
  • This alone has already
    revolutionized FPGA design.
  • 2) new tools like Xilinx Jbits
    software tool suite directly
    support
    coprocessing and RTR.

34
RTR
  • divides application into a series of sequentially
    executed stages, each implemented as a separate
    execution module.
  • Partial RTR partitions these stages into
    finer-grain sub-modules to be swapped in as
    needed.
  • Without RTR, all conf. platforms just ASIC
    emulators.
  • needs a new kind of application development
    environments.
  • directly support development and debugging of RTR
    appl.
  • essential for the advancement of configurable
    computing
  • will also heavily influence the future system
    organization
  • Xilinx, VT, BYU work on run-time kernels,
    run-time support, RTR debugging tools and other
    associated tools.
  • smaller, faster circuits, simplified hardware
    interfacing, fewer IOBs smaller, cheaper
    packages, simplified software interfaces.

35
Run-time Mapping
  • run-time reconfigurable are Xilinx VIRTEX FPGA
    family
  • RAs being part of Chameleon CS2000 series systems
  • Using such devices changes many of the basic
    assumptions in the HW/SW co-design process
  • host/RL interaction is dynamic, needs a tiny OS
    like eBIOS, also to organize RL reconfiguration
    under host control
  • typical goal is minimization of reconfiguration
    latency (especially important in communication
    processors), to hide configuration loading
    latency, and,
  • Scheduling to find best schedule for eBIOS
    calls (Cside).

36
gtgt Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Configware Market
  • FPGA Market
  • Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Hardwired IP Cores on Board
  • Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Academic Expertise
  • ASICs dead
  • Soft CPU
  • HLLs
  • Problems to be solved

37
ASIC emulation a new business model ?
  • ASIC emulation / Rapid Prototyping to replace
    simulation
  • Quickturn (Cadence), IKOS (Synopsys), Celaro
    (Mentor)
  • from rack to board to chip (from other vendors,
    e. g. Virtex and VirtexE family (emulate up to 3
    million gates)
  • Easy configuration using SmartMedia FLASH cards
  • ASIC emulators will become obsolete within years
  • By RTR in-circuit execution debugging instead of
    emulation

38
gtgt Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Configware Market
  • FPGA Market
  • Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Hardwired IP Cores on Board
  • Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Academic Expertise
  • ASICs dead
  • Soft CPU
  • HLLs
  • Problems to be solved

39
EH, EM, ...
  • "Evolvable Hardware" (EH), "Evolutionary Methods"
    (EM), digital DANN, "Darwinistic Methods", and
    biologically inspired electronic systems
  • new research area, also a new application area of
    FPGAs
  • revival of cybernetics or bionics stimulated by
    technology
  • evolutionary and DNA metaphor create
    awareness
  • EM sucks, also thru mushrooming funds in the EU,
    in Japan, Korea, and the USA
  • EM-related international conference series are in
    their stormy visionary phase, like EH, ICES,
    EuroGP, GP, CEC, GECCO, EvoWorkshops, MAPLD, ICGA

40
EH, EM, ...
  • Shake-out phenomena expected, like in the past
    with Artificial Intelligence
  • should be considered as a specialized EDA scene,
    focusing on theoretical issues.
  • Genetic algorithms suck - often replacable by
    more efficient ones from EDA
  • It is recommendable to set-up an interwoven
    competence in both scenes, EM scene and the
    highly commercialized EDA scene
  • EH should be done by EDA people, rather than EM
    freaks.

41
gtgt Academic Expertise
  • Configware Market
  • FPGA Market
  • Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Hardwired IP Cores on Board
  • Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Academic Expertise
  • ASICs dead
  • Soft CPU
  • HLLs
  • Problems to be solved

42
BRASS (1)
  • UC Berkeley, the BRASS group Prof. Dr. John
    Wawrzynek
  • The Pleiades Project, Prof. Jan Rabaey, ultra-low
    power high-performance multimedia computing
    through reconfiguration of heterogeneous system
    modules, reducing energy by overhead elimination,
    programmability at just right granularity,
    parallellism, pipelining, dynamic voltage
    scaling.
  • Garp integrates processor and FPGA dev. in
    parallel w. compiler - software compile
    techniques (VLIW SW pipelining) simple
    pipelining schema f. broad class of loops.
  • SCORE, a stream-based computation model - a
    unifying computational model. Fast Mapping for
    Datapaths by a tree-parsing compiler tool for
    datapath module mapping

43
BRASS (2)
  • HSRA. new FPGA ( related tools) supports
    pipelining, w. retiming capable CLB architecture,
    implemented in a 0.4um DRAM process supporting
    250MHz operation
  • OOCG. Object Oriented Circuit-Generators in Java
  • MESCAL (GSRC), the goal is to provide a
    programmer's model and software development
    environment for efficient implementation of an
    interesting set of applications onto a family of
    fully-programmable architectures /
    microarchitectures.

44
Berkeley claiming (1)
  • SCORE, a stream-based computation model the
    BRASS group claims having solved the problem of
    primary impediment to wide-spread reconfigurable
    computing, by a unifying computational model.
  • Remark clean stream-based model introduced
    1980 Systolic Array
  • 1995 Rainer Kress. Introduces reconfigurable
    stream-based model
  • Fast Mapping for Datapaths (SCORE) BRASS claims
    having introduced 1998 the first tree-parsing
    compiler tool for datapath module mapping ."
    Further, it is the first work to integrate
    simultaneous placement with module mapping in a
    way that preserves linear time complexity."

45
Berkeley claiming (2)
  • Remark The DPSS (Data Path Synthesis System)
    using tree covering simultanous datapath
    placement and routing has been published in 1995
    by Rainer Kress
  • Chip-in-a-Da2 Bee Project. Prof. Dr. Bob
    Brodersons radical rethink of the ASIC design
    flow aimed at shortening design time, relying on
    stream-based DPU arrays. published in 2000
  • Remark the KressArray, a scalable rDPU array
    1995 is stream-based

46
.... Stream Processors - MSP-3
  • 3rd Workshop on Media and Stream Processors
    (MSP-3)
  • http//www.pdcl.eng.wayne.edu/msp01
  • in conj. w. 34th Intl Symp. on Microarchitecture
    (MICRO-34)
  • http//www.microarch.org/micro34
  • Austin, Texas, December 1-2, 2001
  • Topics of interest include, but are not limited
    to
  • Hardware/Compiler techniques for improving memory
    performance of media and stream-based processing
  • Application-specific hardware architectures for
    graphics, video, audio, communications, and other
    media and streaming applications
  • System-on-a-chip architectures for media stream
    processors
  • Hardware/Software Co-Design of media and stream
    processors
  • and others ....

http//www.microarch.org/micro34
47
Berkeley Chip-in-a-Day Bee Project
  • Chip-in-a-Day Project. Prof. Dr. Bob Broderson,
    BWRD targeting a radical rethink of the ASIC
    design flow aimed at shortening design time.
    Relying on stream-based DPU arrays (not rDPU and
    related EDA tools. Davis ... 50x decrease in
    power requ. over typical TI C64X design.
  • New design flow to break up the highly iterative
    EDA process, allowing designers to spend more
    time defining the device and far less time
    implementing it in silicon. ... developers to
    start by creating data flow graphs rather than C
    code,
  • It is stream-based computing by DPU array
    (hardwired DPA)
  • For hardwired and reconfigurable DPU array and
    rDPU array

48
Stanford thru BYU
  • Stanford Prof. Flynn went emeritus, Oskar Menzer
    moved to Bell Labs.
  • no activities seen other than YAFA (yet another
    FPGA application)
  • UCLA Prof. Jason Cong, expert on FPGA
    architectures and R P algorithms. 9 projects,
    mult. sponsors under California MICRO Program
  • Prof. Majid Sarrafzadeh directs the SPS project
    "versatile IPs, a new routing architecture,
    architecture-aware CAD, IP-aware SPS compiler
  • USC Prof. Viktor Prasanna (EE dept.) works 20
    on reconfigurable computing MAARC project,
    DRIVE project and Efficient Self-Reconfiguration.
    - Prof. Dubois RPM Project, FPGA-based
    emulation of scalable multiprocessors.
  • DEFACTO proj. compilation - architecture-independ
    ent at all levels
  • MIT. MATRIX web pages removed 99. RAW project
    a conglomerate
  • VT. Prof. Athanas Jbits API f. internet RTR
    logic (2.7 mio DARPA). w. Prof. Brad Hutchings,
    BYU on programming approaches for RTR Systems
  • BYU. Prof. Brad Hutchings works on the JHDL (JAVA
    Hardware Description Language) and compilation of
    JHDL sources into FPGAs.

49
Toronto thru Karlsruhe
  • U. Toronto. Prof. J.Rose, expert in FPGA
    architectures and R P alg.
  • The group has dev. Transmogrifier C, a C compiler
    creating netlist for Xilinx XC4000 and Altera's
    Flex 8000 and Flex 10000 series FPGAs.
  • Founder of Right Track CAD Corporation acquired
    by Altera in 1999
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New
    Mexico (Jeff Arnold) Project Streams-C
    programming FPGAs from C sources.
  • Katholic University of Leuven, and IMEC Prof.
    Rudy Lauwereins, methods for MPEG-4 like
    multimedia applications on dynamically
    reconfigurable platforms, on reconf.
    instruction set processors.
  • University of Karlsruhe. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Juergen
    Becker hardware/software co-design,
    reconfigurable architectures rel. synthesis for
    future mobile communication systems synthesis
    w.
  • distributed internet-based CAD methods,
    partitioning co-compilers

50
gtgt ASICs dead ?
  • Configware Market
  • FPGA Market
  • Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Hardwired IP Cores on Board
  • Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Academic Expertise
  • ASICs dead ?
  • Soft CPU
  • HLLs
  • Problems to be solved

51
(When) Will FPGAs Kill ASICs? Jonathan Rose
  • ASICs Are Already Dead

My Position Jonathan Rose
They Just Dont Know It Yet!
52
Why? Jonathan Rose
  • You have to fabricate an ASIC
  • Very hard, getting harder
  • An FPGA is pre-fabricated
  • A standard part
  • immense economic advantages

53
Making ASICs is Damn Difficult Jonathan Rose
  • Testing
  • Yield
  • Cross Talk
  • Noise
  • Leakage
  • Clock Tree Design
  • Horrible very deep submicron effects we dont
    even know about yet

54
Did I Mention Inventory? Jonathan Rose
  • ASIC users must predict parts
  • 2 or 3 months in advance!
  • Never guess the Right Amount
  • Make Too Many You Pay holding costs
  • Make Too Few Competitor gets the Sale

Jonathan Rose
55
Jonathan Rose FPGAs Give You
  • Instant Fabrication
  • Get to Market Fast
  • Fix em quick
  • Zero NRE Charges
  • Low Risk
  • Low Cost at good volume

56
FPGAs Too Pricey Too Slow ? Jonathan
Rose
  • 9 Times Out of 10
  • You make can the thing fast by breaking it into
    multiple parallel slower pieces
  • Custom IC Designer Can Make Logic
  • 20x Faster,
  • 20x Smaller than Programmable

57
Whats Wrong with This Picture?
What About PLD Cores on ASICs ?
Jonathan Rose
  • Still Have to Make the Chip
  • Need Two Sets of Software to Build It
  • The ASIC Flow
  • The PLD Flow
  • Have No Idea What to Connect the PLD Pins to
  • Chances Are, You Are Going to Get It Wrong!

58
Whats Right with This Picture!
Jonathan Rose
  • Pre-Fabricated
  • One CAD Tool Flow!
  • Can Connect Anything to Anything
  • PLDs are built for general connectivity

59
gtgt Soft CPU
  • Configware Market
  • FPGA Market
  • Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Hardwired IP Cores on Board
  • Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Academic Expertise
  • ASICs dead
  • Soft CPU
  • HLLs
  • Problems to be solved

60
Free 32 bit processor core
61
Processors in PLDs Excalibur
  • High-Speed Processors Integrated with PLDs

62
Soft CPU new job for compilers
63
Some soft CPU core examples
64
Nios Architecture (Altera)
65
free DSP or Processor Cores
66
FPGA CPUs in teaching and academic research
  • UCSC 1990!
  • Märaldalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden
  • Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden
  • Cornell University
  • Gray Research
  • Georgia Tech
  • Hiroshima City University, Japan
  • Michigan State
  • Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
  • Virginia Tech
  • Washington University, St. Louis
  • New Mexico Tech
  • UC Riverside
  • Tokai University, Japan

67
Xilinx 10Mg, 500Mt, .12 mic
68
Soft rDPA feasible ?
rDPU Array
à la S. Guccione
69
Array I/O examples
data streams, or, from / to embedded memory banks
rDPU Array
data streams, or, from / to embedded memory banks
à la S. Guccione
70
HLL 2 Soft Array
à la S. Guccione
71
HLL 2 flex rDPA
à la S. Guccione
72
gtgt HLLs
  • Configware Market
  • FPGA Market
  • Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Hardwired IP Cores on Board
  • Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Academic Expertise
  • ASICs dead
  • Soft CPU
  • HLLs
  • Problems to be solved

73
HLLs for Hardware Design vs. System Design vs.
RTR System Design
à la S. Guccione
74
HLLs for Hardware Design vs. System Design vs.
RTR System Design
à la S. Guccione
75
CPU and memory on Chip
à la S. Guccione
76
Jbit Environment
à la S. Guccione
77
HLLs for Hardware Design vs. System Design vs.
RTR System Design
à la S. Guccione
78
Embedded System Design
à la S. Guccione
79
gtgt Problems to be solved
  • Configware Market
  • FPGA Market
  • Embedded Systems (Co-Design)
  • Hardwired IP Cores on Board
  • Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR)
  • Rapid Prototyping ASIC Emulation
  • Evolvable Hardware (EH)
  • Academic Expertise
  • ASICs dead
  • Soft CPU
  • HLLs
  • Problems to be solved

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Why Cant Reconfig. Software Survive?
  • Resource constraints/sizes are exposed
  • to programmer
  • in low-level representation (netlist)
  • Design revolves around device size
  • Algorithmic structure
  • Exploited parallelism

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Schedule
time slot
08.30 10.00 Reconfigurable Computing (RC)
10.00 10.30 coffee break
10.30 12.00 Stream-based Computing for RC
12.00 14.00 lunch break
14.00 15.30 Resources for RC
15.30 16.00 coffee break
16.00 17.30 FPGAs recent developments
17.30 end of seminar thank you for attending
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