A Dynamic Reconfigurable Fabric for Platform SoCs

Author

Papachristou, C. ; Weaver, J. ; Vijayakumar, R. ; Wolff, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH

fYear

2006

fDate

28-30 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A dynamic coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture which targets computationally intensive applications like multimedia and wireless applications is presented. Fundamental features of the architecture are an interconnection matrix, switch buffers, functional units, and a controller. Important aspects of the architecture is dynamic datapath reconfiguration over each control step of the application. Simulations of several classes of applications with results are also presented. Results of Xilinx Virtex 4 Implementations are provided

Keywords

dynamic programming; multimedia systems; radio access networks; reconfigurable architectures; Xilinx Virtex 4; dynamic reconfigurable fabric; interconnection matrix; multimedia applications; platform SOCS; switch buffers; wireless applications; Application specific integrated circuits; Computer applications; Fabrics; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Microprocessors; Programmable logic arrays; Reconfigurable architectures; Switches; Tiles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2006. FPL '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0312-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPL.2006.311277

Filename

4101039