Implementation of Wave-Pipelined Interconnects in FPGAs

  • Authors:
  • Terrence Mak;Crescenzo D'Alessandro;Pete Sedcole;Peter Y. K. Cheung;Alex Yakovlev;Wayne Luk

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • NOCS '08 Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Global interconnection and communication at high clock frequencies are becoming more problematic in FPGA. In this paper, we address this problem by presenting an interconnect wave-pipelining strategy, which utilizes the existing programmable interconnects fabrics to provide high-throughput communication in FPGA. Two design approaches for interconnect wave-pipelining, using simple clock phase shifting and asynchronous phase encoding, are presented in this paper. Experimental results from a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA device are also presented.