基于SRAM的FPGA互连线结构简述

FPGAs为信号处理、密码学和存储系统等领域提供了一个可编程的平台.可以在同一块芯片上配置不同的编程数据来实现相应的逻辑功能.可编程互连线资源是FPGA的重要功能模块.文中介绍了产生这种结构的原因以及层次式互连线结构是一种合理、灵活、优化的连线方式,并且对于实现电路功能、提高电路性能都有重要作用.     

适用于数据通路的可编程逻辑器件FDP100K

设计研制了一款适用于数据通路的10万门容量的FPGA器件FDP100K(FDP:FPGA for Data-Path),其主要特点为:可编程逻辑单元结构不同于国际上已有的可编程逻辑单元结构,是一种新颖的基于查询表LUT和多路选择器MUX的混合结构;连线资源结构采用新颖的层次式布线结构,提供高度灵活的布线能力.芯片采用SMIC 0.35 μm CMOS工艺,包含1024个可编程逻辑单元和128个可编程IO单元.芯片配合自主开发的软件系统FDE(FPGA Development Environment)进行测试,结果表明:FDP100K芯片的可编程逻辑单元功能正常;芯片的各种连线资源功能正常;可以准确地实现数据通路型电路和其他类型的电路的功能.     

基于FPGA的IRIG-B(DC)解码器的设计与实现

在通信系统中,采用IRIG-B(DC)码为通信系统提供统一的时间基准,可以使系统的各个单元对设备信息进行时间校正。对于各个设备单元,提出了采用FPGA芯片来设计IRIG-B(DC)时间码解码器,该解码器硬件电路由一片现场可编程门阵列(FPGA)芯片以及外围接口电路组成,其解码过程则通过VHDL语言编程实现。解码器从接收到的IRIG-B(DC)时间码中,提取时间信息和秒脉冲信号,用于调整本设备的时间。实验结果表明,采用FPGA设计解码器,具有体积小、工作性能稳定和方案实现灵活等特点。     

基于可编程芯片的数字电路测试技术

介绍了一种利用被测数字电路中可编程微处理器芯片、大规模可编程FPGA芯片可编程芯片来参与测试的方法,通过对被测数字电路中可编程芯片进行测试软件重构来完成测试性电路构建,在测试计算机控制下,向被测电路加载测试向量,测试软件控制被测电路中的微处理器、FPGA提供各种节点测试响应信号,最终在测试计算机中完成信号的比对及故障识别与辅助定位,经过验证实验,证明该方法具有实用性强、测试成本低的优点。     

集成电路

Actel混合信号FPGA Actel公司推出混合信号FPGA产品系列--ActelFusion融合可编程系统芯片(PSC).该器件在单片可编程系统芯片中集成了混合信号模拟电路、Flash存储器和FPGA架构.     

Actel推出首款混合信号FPGA

Actel公司宣布推出首个混合信号FPGA产品系列——Actel Fusion融合可编程系统芯片(PSC)，可立即供货。Actel Fusion器件在单片可编程系统芯片中集成了混合信号模拟电路、Flash内存和FPGA架构，让设计人员迅速从概念步向完整的设计，并向市场推出功能丰富的系统。Actel Fusion可编程系统芯片为这些应用领域带来可编程逻辑的优势，应用领域包括电源管理、智能电池充电、时钟生成和管理及电机控制等，而这     

FDP FPGA芯片的设计实现

研究了新型的FDP FPGA电路结构及其设计实现.新颖的基于3输入查找表的可编程单元结构,与传统的基于4输入查找表相比,可以提高约11%的逻辑利用率;独特的层次化的分段可编程互联结构以及高效的开关盒设计,使得不同的互联资源可以快速直接相连,大大提高了可编程布线资源效率.FDP芯片包括1600个可编程逻辑单元、160个可用IO、内嵌16k双开块RAM,采用SMIC 0.18μm CMOS工艺全定制方法设计并流片,其裸芯片面积为6.104mm×6.620mm.最终芯片软硬件测试结果表明:芯片各种可编程资源可以高效地配合其软件正确实现用户电路功能.     

一种采用四/五输入可配置查找表结构和优化进位链的新型FPGA

本文提出了一种FPGA可编程逻辑单元中新型的查找表结构和进位链结构。查找表被设计为同时支持四输入和五输入的结构,可根据用户需要进行配置,且不增加使用的互连资源;在新型的进位链中针对关键路径进行了优化。最后在可配置逻辑单元中插入了新设计的可配置扫描链。该可编程逻辑单元电路采用0.13μm 1P8M 1.2/2.5/3.3V Logic CMOS工艺制造。测试结果显示可正确实现四/五输入查找表功能,且进位链传播前级进位的速度在同一工艺下较传统进位链结构提高了约3倍,同时整个可编程逻辑单元的面积较之前增大了72.5%。结果还显示,本文设计的FPGA在仅使用四输入查找表时,逻辑资源利用率高于Virtex II/Virtex 4/Virtex 5/Virtex 6/Virtex 7系列FPGA;在仅使用五输入查找表时,逻辑资源利用率高于Virtex II/Virtex 4系列FPGA。     

FDP FPGA芯片的设计实现

研究了新型的FDP FPGA电路结构及其设计实现.新颖的基于3输入查找表的可编程单元结构,与传统的基于4输入查找表相比,可以提高约11%的逻辑利用率;独特的层次化的分段可编程互联结构以及高效的开关盒设计,使得不同的互联资源可以快速直接相连,大大提高了可编程布线资源效率.FDP芯片包括1600个可编程逻辑单元、160个可用IO、内嵌16k双开块RAM,采用SMIC 0.18μm CMOS工艺全定制方法设计并流片,其裸芯片面积为6.104mm×6.620mm.最终芯片软硬件测试结果表明:芯片各种可编程资源可以高效地配合其软件正确实现用户电路功能.     

基于FPGA的红外遥控彩灯控制器的设计

设计一种基于现场可编程逻辑器件FPGA的红外遥控彩灯多模式显示控制系统。具有成本低、性能可靠、扩展性好等优点。详细介绍了系统的电路结构,提出一种由SC9148B红外发射芯片及外围电路作为发送器,HS0038B红外一体化芯片作为接收器,FPGA作为核心控制器的红外遥控系统的构建方法。该系统通过时序仿真与FPGA逻辑验证,结果表明,该设计能很好地实现彩灯红外遥控信号的解码控制、键值信号存储及译码、彩灯多模式显示等功能。     

Design and implementation of a delay-optimized universal programmable routing circuit for FPGAs

This paper presents a universal field programmable gate array (FPGA) programmable routing circuit,focusing primarily on a delay optimization. Under the precondition of the routing resource's flexibility and routability, the number of programmable interconnect points (PIP) is reduced, and a multiplexer (MUX) plus a BUFFER structure is adopted as the programmable switch. Also, the method of offset lines and the method of complementary hanged end-lines are applied to the TILE routing circuit and the I/O routing circuit, respectively. All of the above features ensure that the whole FPGA chip is highly repeatable, and the signal delay is uniform and predictable over the total chip. Meanwhile, the BUFFER driver is optimized to decrease the signal delay by up to 5%. The proposed routing circuit is applied to the Fudan programmable device (FDP) FPGA, which has been taped out with an SMIC 0.18-μm logic 1P6M process. The test result shows that the programmable routing resource works correctly, and the signal delay over the chip is highly uniform and predictable.     

Circuit design of a novel FPGA chip FDP2008

A novel FPGA chip FDP2008 (Fudan Programmable Logic) has been designed and implemented with the SMIC 0.18μm CMOS logic 1P6M process. The new design method means that the configurable logic block can be configured as distributed RAM and a shift register. A universal programmable routing circuit is also presented; by adopting offset lines, complementary hanged end-lines and MUX + Buffer routing switches, the whole FPGA chip is highly repeatable, and the signal delay is uniform and predictable over the total chip. A standard configuration interface SPI is added in the configuration circuit, and a group of highly sensitive amplifiers is used to magnify the read back data. FDP2008 contains 20 × 30 logic TILEs, 200 programmable IOBs and 10 × 4 kbit dual port block RAMs. The hardware software cooperation test shows that FDP2008 works correctly and efficiently.     

Hybrid Multi-FPGA Board Evaluation by Permitting Limited Multi-Hop Routing

Multi-FPGA Boards (MFBs) have been in use for more than a decade for implementing systems requiring high performance and for emulation/prototyping of multimillion gate chips. It is important to develop an MFB architecture which can be used for emulation or prototyping of a large number of circuits. A key feature of an MFB is its routing architecture defined by its inter-Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) connections. There are two types of inter-FPGA connections, namely–fixed connections (FCs) connecting a pair of FPGAs through dedicated wires and programmable connections (PCs) which connect a pair of FPGAs through a programmable switch. An architecture which has a mix of both these type of connections is called a hybrid routing architecture. It has been shown in the literature [7] that a hybrid MFB architecture is more efficient for emulation than an architecture with only one type of connections. The cost of an MFB and delay of the emulated circuit on it depends on the number of PCs used for emulation. An objective of a designer of an MFB for circuit emulation is to minimize the required number of PCs. In this paper, we describe algorithms to evaluate the requirement of PCs for many hybrid routing architectures.The requirement of PCs can be reduced if some programmable connections are replaced by a connection using only FCs by routing through FPGAs. Such a routing is called multi-hop routing. We present an optimal and a heuristic algorithm for estimation of PCs when limited number of hops through FPGAs are permitted. The unique feature of our evaluation scheme is that it is generic and treat routing architecture as a parameter. We have used benchmark circuits as well as synthetic cloned circuits for testing our algorithms. Our heuristic algorithm is very fast and gives optimal results most of the time. Our algorithms can be used for actual routing during circuit emulation.     

A novel robust FPGA routing switch box design for ultra low power applications

Fabrication cost of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) is exponentially rising in deep submicron region due to rapidly rising non-recurring engineering cost. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide an attractive alternative to ASICs but consume an order of magnitude higher power. There is a need to explore ways of reducing FPGA power consumption so that they can also be employed in ultra low power (ULP) applications instead of ASICs. Subthreshold region of operation is an ideal choice for ULP low-throughput FPGAs. The routing of an FPGA consumes most of the chip area and primarily determines the circuit delay and power consumption. There is a need to design moderate-speed ULP routing switches for subthreshold FPGA. This article proposes a novel subthreshold FPGA routing switch box (SB) that utilises the leakage voltage through transistor as biasing voltage which shows 69%, 61.2% and 30% improvement in delay, power delay product and delay variation, respectively, over conventional routing SB.     

Block-oriented programmable design with switching networkinterconnect

A block-oriented programmable design with switching network interconnect is proposed for fast turn-around, low manufacturing cost, and layout-independent high-speed systems. We introduce the architecture and investigate the constraints and properties originated from the architecture. We show that routability is the most crucial concern for a successful design, and propose objective functions as well as algorithms for switching network optimization. The mapping for the circuits is performed by partitioning, placement, and routing using a maximum matching method. The integration of the whole system demonstrates excellent results in terms of circuit usage     

GlitchLess: Dynamic Power Minimization in FPGAs Through Edge Alignment and Glitch Filtering

This paper describes GlitchLess, a circuit-level technique for reducing power in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) by eliminating unnecessary logic transitions called glitches. This is done by adding programmable delay elements to the logic blocks of the FPGA. After routing a circuit and performing static timing analysis, these delay elements are programmed to align the arrival times of the inputs of each lookup table (LUT), thereby preventing new glitches from being generated. Moreover, the delay elements also behave as filters that eliminate other glitches generated by upstream logic or off-chip circuitry. On average, the proposed implementation eliminates 87% of the glitching, which reduces overall FPGA power by 17%. The added circuitry increases the overall FPGA area by 6% and critical-path delay by less than 1%. Furthermore, since it is applied after routing, the proposed technique requires little or no modifications to the routing architecture or computer-aided design (CAD) flow.      

Resource requirements and layouts for field programmableinterconnection chips

Field-programmable interconnection chips (FPIC's) provide the capability of realizing user programmable interconnection for any desired permutation. Such an interconnection is very much desired for supporting rapid prototyping of hardware systems and for providing programmable communication networks for parallel and distributed computing. An FPIC should realize any possible permutation of input to output pins via a set of programmable switches. In this paper, we show that any such architecture requires a minimum of Ω(n log n) switches, where Ω is the number of I/O pins. The result stems from an analysis of the underlying permutation network. In addition, for networks of bounded degree d, we prove an Ω(log_d-1 n) bound on the routing delay (maximum length of routing paths for specific I/O permutations) and an Ω(n log_d-1 n) bound on the average utilization of programmable switches used by the FPIC to implement a specific permutation. For the same type of networks, we prove an Ω(n log_d-1 n) bound on the number of nodes of the network. Furthermore, we design efficient architectures for FPIC's offering a wide variety of routing delays, high average programmable resource utilization, and O(n²)-area two-layer layouts. The proposed structures are called hybrid Benes-Crossbar (HBC) architectures and clearly exhibit a tradeoff between performance (routing delay utilization) and area of the layout     

Low-Power Programmable FPGA Routing Circuitry

We consider circuit techniques for reducing field-programmable gate-array (FPGA) power consumption and propose a family of new FPGA routing switch designs that are programmable to operate in three different modes: high-speed, low-power, or sleep. High-speed mode provides similar power and performance to traditional FPGA routing switches. In low-power mode, speed is curtailed in order to reduce power consumption. Leakage is reduced by 28%–52% in low-power versus high-speed mode, depending on the particular switch design selected. Dynamic power is reduced by 28%–31% in low-power mode. Leakage power in sleep mode, which is suitable for unused routing switches, is 61%–79% lower than in high-speed mode. Each of the proposed switch designs has a different power/area/speed tradeoff. All of the designs require only minor changes to a traditional routing switch and involve relatively small area overhead, making them easy to incorporate into current commercial FPGAs. The applicability of the new switches is motivated through an analysis of timing slack in industrial FPGA designs. It is observed that a considerable fraction of routing switches may be slowed down (operate in low-power mode), without impacting overall design performance.