A survey of dynamically reconfigurable FPGA devices

Author

Donthi, Sumanth ; Haggard, Roger L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tennessee Technol. Univ., Cookeville, TN, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

16-18 March 2003

Firstpage

422

Lastpage

426

Abstract

The FPGA market has evolved at an extremely rapid pace, with larger and faster devices being released to the industry by different vendors. One has to select a target FPGA device that suits one´s application. This paper presents a survey of currently available dynamically reconfigurable FPGA devices. The devices were: the Atmel AT40k family, the Xilinx Virtex family, the Lattice Semiconductors ORCA and ispXPGA families, and the Altera APEX20k family. The degree of dynamic reconfigurability of these devices was compared based on partial or full reconfiguration. The architectures of these devices were evaluated based on the granularity and reconfiguration time.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; Altera APEX20k family; Atmel AT40k family; Lattice Semiconductors ORCA families; Lattice Semiconductors ispXPGA families; Xilinx Virtex family; dynamically reconfigurable FPGA devices; full reconfiguration; granularity; partial reconfiguration; reconfiguration time; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Flip-flops; Hardware; Logic devices; Programmable logic arrays; Programmable logic devices; Reconfigurable logic; Signal generators; Table lookup;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 2003. Proceedings of the 35th Southeastern Symposium on

ISSN

0094-2898

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7697-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.2003.1194605

Filename

1194605