Synthesis of instruction sets for pipelined microprocessors
DAC '94 Proceedings of the 31st annual Design Automation Conference
An ASIP instruction set optimization algorithm with functional module sharing constraint
ICCAD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
More wires and fewer LUTs: a design methodology for FPGAs
FPGA '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/SIGDA sixth international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
Innovative system-level design environment based on FORM for transport processing system
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks: Performance Issues,Second Edition
Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks: Performance Issues,Second Edition
Hardware-Software Cosynthesis for Digital Systems
IEEE Design & Test
PROTEUS: Programmable Hardware for Telecommunication Systems
ICCS '94 Proceedings of the1994 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computer & Processors
P4: A platform for FPGA implementation of protocol boosters
FPL '97 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications
CAD-oriented FPGA and dedicated CAD system for telecommunications
FPL '97 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications
FORM: A Frame-Oriented Representation Method for Digital Telecommunication System Design
EDTC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 European conference on Design and Test
Reconfigurable Computing: The Theory and Practice of FPGA-Based Computation
Reconfigurable Computing: The Theory and Practice of FPGA-Based Computation
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The paper describes a transmutable telecom system called ATTRACTOR, which uses more than 100 FPGAs, and features both reconfigurability and high performance. There are two key innovations. One is the board-level modularity concept that allows different functions to be implemented on different boards individually. The other is a high-speed serial link mechanism that provides excellent inter-board communication without sacrificing performance. Thus this system can be completely reconstructed to suit different applications by arranging different board combinations and reconfiguring each board. Using ATTRACTOR, we realized an IP packet forwarder, which is very speed-intensive telecom function, that has to decide the next-hop address of each incoming IP packet and send it out on-the-fly. It was confirmed that the function works well in a real ATM-LAN environment.