Publication detail

Implementation Techniques for Evolvable HW Systems: Virtual vs. Dynamic Reconfiguration

SALVADOR, R. OTERO, A. MORA, J. DE LA TORRE, E. RIESGO, T. SEKANINA, L.

Original Title

Implementation Techniques for Evolvable HW Systems: Virtual vs. Dynamic Reconfiguration

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Adaptive hardware requires some reconfiguration capabilities. FPGAs with native dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) support pose a dilemma for system designers: whether to use native DPR or to build a virtual reconfigurable circuit (VRC) on top of the FPGA which allows selecting alternative functions by a multiplexing scheme. This solution allows much faster reconfiguration, but with higher resource overhead. This paper discusses the advantages of both implementations for a 2D image processing matrix. Results show how higher operating frequency is obtained for the matrix using DPR. However, this is compensated in the VRC during evolution due to the comparatively negligible reconfiguration time. Regarding area, the DPR implementation consumes slightly more resources due to the reconfiguration engine, but adds further more capabilities to the system.

Keywords

FPGA, evolvable hardware, digital circuit, image filter

Authors

SALVADOR, R.; OTERO, A.; MORA, J.; DE LA TORRE, E.; RIESGO, T.; SEKANINA, L.

RIV year

2012

Released

29. 8. 2012

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Location

Oslo

ISBN

978-1-4673-2257-7

Book

Proc. of the 22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)

Pages from

547

Pages to

550

Pages count

4

URL

https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/9985/

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT96954,
  author="Ruben {Salvador} and Andres {Otero} and Javier {Mora} and Eduardo {De la Torre} and Teresa {Riesgo} and Lukáš {Sekanina}",
  title="Implementation Techniques for Evolvable HW Systems: Virtual vs. Dynamic Reconfiguration",
  booktitle="Proc. of the 22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)",
  year="2012",
  pages="547--550",
  publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
  address="Oslo",
  doi="10.1109/FPL.2012.6339376",
  isbn="978-1-4673-2257-7",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/9985/"
}

Documents

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