Title :
Multiplexer-Based Routing Fabric for Reconfigurable Logic
Author :
Bennebroek, Martijn ; Danilin, Alexander
Author_Institution :
Philips Res. Europe, Eindhoven
Abstract :
A novel routing fabric is introduced that offers high flexibility at significant lower silicon cost compared to routing fabrics currently incorporated in many field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, IP cores, and IP-core wrappers. The novel fabric is entirely constructed from multiplexers and unidirectional point-to-point connections, controlled by configuration bits, and prove very efficient when mapping applications. For a fabric connecting 4-input look-up-tables, area savings of 60% are demonstrated when routing applications from the MCNC benchmark set.
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; multiplexing equipment; reconfigurable architectures; table lookup; FPGA; IP-core wrappers; MCNC benchmark set; configuration bits; field programmable gate array; look-up-tables; multiplexer-based routing fabric; reconfigurable logic; unidirectional point-to-point connections; Europe; Fabrics; Field programmable gate arrays; Multiplexing; Reconfigurable logic; Routing; Silicon; Switches; Tiles; Wires;
Conference_Titel :
Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2007. FPL 2007. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1060-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1060-6
DOI :
10.1109/FPL.2007.4380690
