An extensible, low cost rapid prototyping environment based on a reconfigurable set of FPGAs

Author

Adaos, K. ; Alexiou, G.P. ; Kanopoulos, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng. & Inf., Patras Univ., Greece

fYear

1998

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

83

Abstract

Presents the architecture of a system for the rapid prototyping of digital circuits that is based an the Altera FLEX8000 reconfigurable set of FPGAs. The interconnection architecture of the system consists of both fixed lines between adjacent FPGAs and shared lines that are capable of interconnecting more than two devices. The reconfigurable set of devices is placed on a 2D grid. The external interface of the system enables the connection of two or more base modules to construct a larger grid with similar characteristics

Keywords

circuit CAD; digital circuits; field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; 2D grid; Altera FLEX8000 family; base modules; digital circuits; external interface; fixed lines; interconnection architecture; rapid prototyping environment; reconfigurable FPGA set; shared lines; Computer architecture; Costs; Design engineering; Digital systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Integrated circuit interconnections; Logic devices; Prototypes; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rapid System Prototyping, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Ninth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Leuven

ISSN

1074-6005

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8479-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWRSP.1998.676672

Filename

676672