A connection router for the dynamic reconfiguration of FPGAs

Authors:
Elias Vansteenkiste;Karel Bruneel;Dirk Stroobandt
Affiliations:
ELIS Department, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium;ELIS Department, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium;ELIS Department, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Venue:
ARC'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Reconfigurable Computing: architectures, tools and applications
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Dynamic Circuit Specialization (DCS) is a new FPGA CAD tool flow that uses Run-Time Reconfiguration to automatically specialize the FPGA configuration for a whole range of specific data values. DCS implementations are a factor 5 faster and need a factor 8 less luts compared to conventional implementations. We propose a novel routing algorithm for reconfigurable routing, called the Connection router. In contrast to troute, another reconfiguration-aware router, our new router is fully automated and far more scalable.