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We describe serial hardware libraries which have been developed as building blocks for designs involving arithmetic, digital signal processing and video operations. These libraries are parametrised in various ways to provide the appropriate amount of serialisation and pipelining. They can be used for producing a wide range of implementations, including digit-serial circuits as well as LPGS and LSGP designs. The layout of such implementations can be controlled using device-specific placement constraints. Tools are being developed to assist production of correct, efficient and well-documented hardware libraries. Our experiments illustrate the conditions under which serial multipliers are more effective than parallel multipliers in Xilinx Virtex technology.
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Luk, W., Derbyshire, A., Guo, S., Siganos, D. (1999). Serial Hardware Libraries for Reconfigurable Designs. In: Lysaght, P., Irvine, J., Hartenstein, R. (eds) Field Programmable Logic and Applications. FPL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1673. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48302-1_19
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