Designing a novel high-performance FPGA architecture for data intensive applications |
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Authors: | Kostas Siozios Dimitrios Soudris |
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Affiliation: | (1) VLSI Design and Testing Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Vas. Sofias 12, 67100 Xanthi, Greece;(2) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechneiou, Zographou Campus, 157 80 Athens, Greece |
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Abstract: | A wide variety of real-time applications (e.g. multimedia, communication, etc.) require implementations that meet tight timing
constraints. This work introduces novel high-performance FPGA architecture capable of implementing efficiently any time critical
application. The fundamental contribution of the proposed reconfigurable architecture is the design of a highly efficient
(performance and power consumption) interconnection structure, taking into consideration the statistical and spatial data
extracted from applications, which are implemented on Virtex FPGAs. The derived architecture is software-supported by the
MEANDER design framework. Using a number of real-time applications, extensive comparison study in terms of several design parameters
proves the effectiveness of the proposed architecture against to Virtex one. More specifically, the proposed architecture
achieves performance improvement and power savings up to 20 and 16%, respectively. Moreover, compared to a Virtex architecture
with same power budget, our architecture achieves performance improvement by 42%.
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Keywords: | FPGA architecture High-performance Heterogeneous interconnection architecture Switch Box CAD tool |
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