Improved delay measurement method in FPGA based on transition probability

  • Authors:
  • Justin S.J. Wong;Peter Y.K. Cheung

  • Affiliations:
  • Imperial College, London, United Kingdom;Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 19th ACM/SIGDA international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The ability to measure delay of arbitrary circuits on FPGA offers many opportunities for on-chip characterisation and optimisation. This paper describes an improved delay measurement method by monitoring the transition probability at the output nodes as the operating frequency is swept. The new method uses optimised test vector generation to improve the accuracy of the test method. It is effectively demonstrated on a 4th order IIR filter circuit implemented on an Altera Cyclone III FPGA.