Pub Date : 1997-04-16DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.1997.624629
J. Cong, John Peck
We summarize our study on implementing tautology checking, a fundamental logic synthesis algorithm, using an FPGA based reconfigurable application specific coprocessor. The use of the tautology checking algorithm is first discussed followed by the specifics of hardware accelerator implementation and interface to application software. We compare our hardware accelerator for the tautology check algorithm with the software implementation of the tautology check algorithm in Espresso II (R. Rudell and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, 1987). Our experimental results show that our accelerator is capable of achieving a maximum speedup factor of 2.94 and averaging 1.36 on 110 modified industry benchmarks included with the Espresso II package.
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Pub Date : 1997-04-16DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.1997.624617
P. K. Chan, M. Schlag
The authors describe their experience and progress in accelerating an FPGA router. Placement and routing is undoubtedly the most time-consuming process in automatic chip design or configuring programmable logic devices as reconfigurable computing elements. Their goal is to accelerate routing of FPGAs by 10 fold with a combination of processor clusters and hardware acceleration. Coarse-grain parallelism is exploited by having several processors route separate groups of nets in parallel. A hardware accelerator is presented which exploits the fine-grain parallelism in routing individual nets.
{"title":"Acceleration of an FPGA router","authors":"P. K. Chan, M. Schlag","doi":"10.1109/FPGA.1997.624617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FPGA.1997.624617","url":null,"abstract":"The authors describe their experience and progress in accelerating an FPGA router. Placement and routing is undoubtedly the most time-consuming process in automatic chip design or configuring programmable logic devices as reconfigurable computing elements. Their goal is to accelerate routing of FPGAs by 10 fold with a combination of processor clusters and hardware acceleration. Coarse-grain parallelism is exploited by having several processors route separate groups of nets in parallel. A hardware accelerator is presented which exploits the fine-grain parallelism in routing individual nets.","PeriodicalId":303064,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The 5th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines Cat. No.97TB100186)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126828270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1997-04-16DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.1997.624614
Qiang Wang, D. Lewis
This paper describes a compiler that generates both hardware and controlling software for field-programmable compute accelerators. By analyzing a source program together with part of its input, the compiler generates VHDL descriptions of functional units that are mapped on a set of FPGA chips and an optimized sequence of control constructions that run on the customized machine. The primary technique employed in the compiler is partial evaluation, which is used to transform an application program together with part of its input into an optimized program. Further phases in the compiler identify pieces of the program that can be realized in hardware and schedule computations to execute on the resulting hardware. Finally, a set of specialized functional units generated by the compiler for a timing simulation program is used to demonstrate the approach.
{"title":"Automated field-programmable compute accelerator design using partial evaluation","authors":"Qiang Wang, D. Lewis","doi":"10.1109/FPGA.1997.624614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FPGA.1997.624614","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a compiler that generates both hardware and controlling software for field-programmable compute accelerators. By analyzing a source program together with part of its input, the compiler generates VHDL descriptions of functional units that are mapped on a set of FPGA chips and an optimized sequence of control constructions that run on the customized machine. The primary technique employed in the compiler is partial evaluation, which is used to transform an application program together with part of its input into an optimized program. Further phases in the compiler identify pieces of the program that can be realized in hardware and schedule computations to execute on the resulting hardware. Finally, a set of specialized functional units generated by the compiler for a timing simulation program is used to demonstrate the approach.","PeriodicalId":303064,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The 5th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines Cat. No.97TB100186)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128717212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1997-04-16DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.1997.624613
J. Babb, M. Frank, V. Lee, E. Waingold, R. Barua, M. Taylor, Jang Kim, D. Srikrishna, A. Agarwal
The RAW benchmark suite consists of twelve programs designed to facilitate comparing, validating, and improving reconfigurable computing systems. These benchmarks run the gamut of algorithms found in general purpose computing, including sorting, matrix operations, and graph algorithms. The suite includes an architecture-independent compilation framework, Raw Computation Structures (RawCS), to express each algorithm's dependencies and to support automatic synthesis, partitioning, and mapping to a reconfigurable computer. Within this framework, each benchmark is portably designed in both C and Behavioral Verilog and scalably parameterized to consume a range of hardware resource capacities. To establish initial benchmark ratings, we have targeted a commercial logic emulation system based on virtual wires technology to automatically generate designs up to millions of gates (14 to 379 FPGAs). Because the virtual wires techniques abstract away machine-level details like FPGA capacity and interconnect, our hardware target for this system is an abstract reconfigurable logic fabric with memory-mapped host I/O. We report initial speeds in the range of 2X to 1800X faster than a 2.82 SPECint95 SparcStation 20 and encourage others in the field to run these benchmarks on other systems to provide a standard comparison.
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Pub Date : 1997-04-16DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.1997.624620
J. Woodfill, B. V. Herzen
The paper describes a powerful, scalable, reconfigurable computer called the PARTS engine. The PARTS engine consists of 16 Xilinx 4025 FPGAs, and 16 one-megabyte SRAMs. The FPGAs are connected in a partial torus-each associated with two adjacent SRAMs. The SRAMs are tightly coupled to the FPGAs so that all the SRAMs can be accessed concurrently. The PARTS engine fits on a standard PCI card in a personal computer or workstation. The first application implemented on the PARTS engine is a depth from stereo vision algorithm that computes 24 stereo disparities on 320 by 240 pixel images at 42 frames per second. Running at this speed, the engine is performing approximately 2.3 billion RISC-equivalent operations per second, accessing memory at a rate of 500 million bytes per second and attaining throughput of over 70 million point/spl times/disparity measurements per second.
{"title":"Real-time stereo vision on the PARTS reconfigurable computer","authors":"J. Woodfill, B. V. Herzen","doi":"10.1109/FPGA.1997.624620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FPGA.1997.624620","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a powerful, scalable, reconfigurable computer called the PARTS engine. The PARTS engine consists of 16 Xilinx 4025 FPGAs, and 16 one-megabyte SRAMs. The FPGAs are connected in a partial torus-each associated with two adjacent SRAMs. The SRAMs are tightly coupled to the FPGAs so that all the SRAMs can be accessed concurrently. The PARTS engine fits on a standard PCI card in a personal computer or workstation. The first application implemented on the PARTS engine is a depth from stereo vision algorithm that computes 24 stereo disparities on 320 by 240 pixel images at 42 frames per second. Running at this speed, the engine is performing approximately 2.3 billion RISC-equivalent operations per second, accessing memory at a rate of 500 million bytes per second and attaining throughput of over 70 million point/spl times/disparity measurements per second.","PeriodicalId":303064,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The 5th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines Cat. No.97TB100186)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123894669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1997-04-16DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.1997.624602
J. T. McHenry, P. Dowd, F. Pellegrino, T. M. Carrozzi, W. B. Cocks
This implementation of the firewall enables a high degree of traffic selectability yet avoids the usual performance penalty associated with IP level firewalls. This approach is applicable to high-speed broadband networks, and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks are addressed in particular. Security management is achieved through a new technique of active connection management with authentication. Past approaches to network security involve firewalls providing selection based on packet filtering and application level proxy gateways. IP level firewalling was sufficient for traditional networks but causes a severe performance degradation in high speed broadband environments. The approach described in this paper discusses the use of an FPGA-based front end processor that filters relevant signaling information to the firewall host while at the same time allowing friendly connections to proceed at line speed with no performance degradation.
{"title":"An FPGA-based coprocessor for ATM firewalls","authors":"J. T. McHenry, P. Dowd, F. Pellegrino, T. M. Carrozzi, W. B. Cocks","doi":"10.1109/FPGA.1997.624602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FPGA.1997.624602","url":null,"abstract":"This implementation of the firewall enables a high degree of traffic selectability yet avoids the usual performance penalty associated with IP level firewalls. This approach is applicable to high-speed broadband networks, and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks are addressed in particular. Security management is achieved through a new technique of active connection management with authentication. Past approaches to network security involve firewalls providing selection based on packet filtering and application level proxy gateways. IP level firewalling was sufficient for traditional networks but causes a severe performance degradation in high speed broadband environments. The approach described in this paper discusses the use of an FPGA-based front end processor that filters relevant signaling information to the firewall host while at the same time allowing friendly connections to proceed at line speed with no performance degradation.","PeriodicalId":303064,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The 5th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines Cat. No.97TB100186)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125490788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1997-04-16DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.1997.624607
G. Brebner
Swappable Logic Units (SLUs) were introduced by the author previously (1996) to play a role in virtual hardware subsystems that is analogous to the role of pages or segments in virtual memory subsystems. The intention is that a conventional operating system can be extended to manage SLU circuitry implemented using FPGA real estate. In order to minimise operating system overheads, two particular SLU-based virtual hardware models were deemed practical: a "sea of accelerators" model and a "parallel harness" model. This paper looks in some detail at how SLUs will fit within the overall environment of a fairly conventional hardware/software system. First, there is a discussion of the FPGA-based hardware environment for SLUs, followed by a discussion of the software environment from which SLUs might be used. After this, there is a description of the operational properties that SLUs can have, and how these fit in with the two virtual hardware models. Finally, proposals for standard interfaces between SLUs and their environment are discussed. These interfaces can be regarded as constraints on the designers of SLU circuitry or, more positively, as suppliers of an enriched context within which such circuitry operates. The overall impact of the work presented in the paper is to show that it is feasible to incorporate configurable hardware within traditional computer systems that use high-level language programs and computer operating systems. That is, it should not always be necessary to devise special-purpose hardware/software systems to realise custom computing.
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Pub Date : 1997-04-16DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.1997.624606
Jim Burns, A. Donlin, Jonathan D. Hogg, Satnam Singh, Mark de Wit
The feasibility of run-time reconfiguration of FPGAs has been established by a large number of case studies. However, these systems have typically involved an ad hoc combination of hardware and software. The software that manages the dynamic reconfiguration is typically specialised to one application and one hardware configuration. We present three different applications of dynamic reconfiguration, based on research activities at Glasgow University, and extract a set of common requirements. We present the design of an extensible run-time system for managing the dynamic reconfiguration of FPGAs, motivated by these requirements. The system is called RAGE, and incorporates operating-system style services that permit sophisticated and high level operations on circuits.
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Pub Date : 1997-04-16DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.1997.624619
Michael Rencher, B. Hutchings
Automated target recognition is an application area that requires special-purpose hardware to achieve reasonable performance. FPGA-based platforms can provide a high level of performance for ATR systems if the implementation can be adapted to the limited FPGA and routing resources of these architectures. The paper discusses a mapping experiment where a linear-systolic implementation of an ATR algorithm is mapped to the SPLASH 2 platform. Simple column oriented processors were used throughout the design to achieve high performance with limited nearest neighbor communication. The distributed SPLASH 2 memories are also exploited to achieve a high degree of parallelism. The resulting design is scalable and can be spread across multiple SPLASH 2 boards with a linear increase in performance.
{"title":"Automated target recognition on SPLASH 2","authors":"Michael Rencher, B. Hutchings","doi":"10.1109/FPGA.1997.624619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FPGA.1997.624619","url":null,"abstract":"Automated target recognition is an application area that requires special-purpose hardware to achieve reasonable performance. FPGA-based platforms can provide a high level of performance for ATR systems if the implementation can be adapted to the limited FPGA and routing resources of these architectures. The paper discusses a mapping experiment where a linear-systolic implementation of an ATR algorithm is mapped to the SPLASH 2 platform. Simple column oriented processors were used throughout the design to achieve high performance with limited nearest neighbor communication. The distributed SPLASH 2 memories are also exploited to achieve a high degree of parallelism. The resulting design is scalable and can be spread across multiple SPLASH 2 boards with a linear increase in performance.","PeriodicalId":303064,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The 5th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines Cat. No.97TB100186)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123663566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1997-04-16DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.1997.624615
Roger Francis Woods, S. Ludwig, J. Heron, D. Trainor, Stephan W. Gehring
The implementation of a number of FIR filter structures in the Xilinx XC6200 technology is presented. The designs have been implemented using a combination of IRIS, an architectural synthesis tool and Trianus/Hades a set of integrated tools for implementing algorithms on Custom Computing Machines. The main attraction of this approach is that it allows algorithms to be compiled quickly allowing performance changes to be made at the architectural level in IRIS rather than at the FPGA layout level.
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