An Effective Design System for Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures

  • Authors:
  • Sriram Govindarajan;Iyad Ouaiss;Meenakshi Kaul;Vinoo Srinivasan;Ranga Vemuri

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FCCM '98 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The SPARCS system is an integrated partitioning and synthesis environment for reconfigurable architectures. In this paper, we use the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) image compression algorithm as a design example to demonstrate the effectiveness of dynamic reconfiguration achieved using SPARCS. We present a typical design process using the SPARCS system consisting of temporal partitioning, spatial partitioning, and design synthesis. The results, obtained on a commercial RC architecture, show that the multiply-reconfigured version of the JPEG compression algorithm achieves reasonable improvement in execution times compared to the one-time configured version.