Fabric-based systems: model, tools, applications.

Conference · Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/FPGA.2003.1227274· OSTI ID:976516

Wolinski, C ^[1]; Gokhale, M ^[2]; McCabe, K P ^[3]

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1. Christophe
2. Maya
3. Kevin P.

A Fabric Based System is a parameterized cellular architecture in which an array of computing cells communicates with an embedded processor through a global memory . This architecture is customizable to different classes of applications by funtional unit, interconnect, and memory parameters, and can be instantiated efficiently on platform FPGAs . In previous work, we have demonstrated the advantage of reconfigurable fabrics for image and signal processing applications . Recently, we have build a Fabric Generator, a Java-based toolset that greatly accelerates construction of the fabrics presented in. A module-generation library is used to define, instantiate, and interconnect cells' datapaths . FG generates customized sequencers for individual cells or collections of cells . We describe the Fabric-Based System model, the FG toolset, and concrete realizations offabric architectures generated by FG on the Altera Excalibur ARM that can deliver 4.5 GigaMACs/s (8/16 bit data, Multiply-Accumulate) .

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE
• OSTI ID: 976516
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-03-0352
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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