Enhancing FPGA performance for arithmetic circuits

  • Authors:
  • Philip Brisk;Ajay K. Verma;Paolo Ienne;Hadi Parandeh-Afshar

  • Affiliations:
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland and University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 44th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

FPGAs offer flexibility and cost-effectiveness that ASICs cannot match; however, their performance is quite poor in comparison, especially for arithmetic dominated circuits. To address this issue, this paper introduces a novel reconfigurable lattice built from counters rather than look-up tables that can effectively accelerate the arithmetic portions of a circuit. We intend to integrate this novel lattice onto the same die as an FPGA.