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Field-Programmable VLSI Based on a Bit-Serial Fine-Grain Architecture
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This paper presents a novel architecture to solve two problems of existing FPGAs : the large delay and area due to complex programmable switch blocks, and the large area due to coarse-grain logic blocks that are underutilized to a great degree. A mesh-connected cellular array based on a bit-serial pipeline architecture is introduced to minimize complexity of switch blocks. A fine-grain logic block architecture with a functionality of a bit-serial adder is presented to minimize the number of inputs and outputs of the logic block since increase in the number of inputs and outputs directly increases the complexity of a switch block. For an area-efficient design, the logic block is implemented based on a hybrid of a programmable logic gate and a dedicated carry logic. The hybrid architecture allows us to use a small lookup table to implement the logic gate. Moreover, the carry logic uses a functional pass-gate that merges both logic and storage functions compactly. The performance of the fine-grain field-programmable VLSI (FPVLSI) is evaluated to be more than 2 times higher than that of a coarse-grain FPVLSI.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E87-C No.11 pp.1897-1902
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Masanori HARIYAMA, Weisheng CHONG, Michitaka KAMEYAMA, "Field-Programmable VLSI Based on a Bit-Serial Fine-Grain Architecture" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics,
vol. E87-C, no. 11, pp. 1897-1902, November 2004, doi: .
Abstract: This paper presents a novel architecture to solve two problems of existing FPGAs : the large delay and area due to complex programmable switch blocks, and the large area due to coarse-grain logic blocks that are underutilized to a great degree. A mesh-connected cellular array based on a bit-serial pipeline architecture is introduced to minimize complexity of switch blocks. A fine-grain logic block architecture with a functionality of a bit-serial adder is presented to minimize the number of inputs and outputs of the logic block since increase in the number of inputs and outputs directly increases the complexity of a switch block. For an area-efficient design, the logic block is implemented based on a hybrid of a programmable logic gate and a dedicated carry logic. The hybrid architecture allows us to use a small lookup table to implement the logic gate. Moreover, the carry logic uses a functional pass-gate that merges both logic and storage functions compactly. The performance of the fine-grain field-programmable VLSI (FPVLSI) is evaluated to be more than 2 times higher than that of a coarse-grain FPVLSI.
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