Title :
Design of virtual digital controllers based on dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs
Author :
Sklyarov, Valery ; Lau, Nuno ; Melo, A. ; Oliveira, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Electron. e Telecoms, Aveiro Univ.
Abstract :
The paper discusses dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs and their use for the physical implementation of digital controllers. The technique considered presents various ways of behavioral specification and logic synthesis, which can be applied to the practical design of virtual control circuits that have such properties as flexibility, extensibility and reusability. The authors have suggested the basic structure of a virtual digital controller that is composed of a formally synthesized modifiable circuit (specified by either graph-schemes or their extensions) and reusable functional blocks that are invoked in order to simplify, the description of the control algorithms
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; microcontrollers; reconfigurable architectures; behavioral specification; control algorithms; dynamically reconfigurable FPGA; extensibility; flexibility; formally synthesized modifiable circuit; logic synthesis; reusability; reusable functional blocks; virtual control circuits; virtual digital controller design; Circuit synthesis; Circuit testing; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Digital control; Field programmable gate arrays; Logic circuits; Logic design; System testing; Telecommunication control;
Conference_Titel :
Euromicro Conference, 1998. Proceedings. 24th
Conference_Location :
Vasteras
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8646-4
DOI :
10.1109/EURMIC.1998.711799
