IEICE Transactions on Electronics
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Implementation of a Partially Reconfigurable Multi-Context FPGA Based on Asynchronous Architecture
Hasitha Muthumala WAIDYASOORIYAMasanori HARIYAMAMichitaka KAMEYAMA
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2009 Volume E92.C Issue 4 Pages 539-549

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This paper presents a novel architecture to increase the hardware utilization in multi-context field programmable gate arrays (MC-FPGAs). Conventional MC-FPGAs use dedicated tracks to transfer context-ID bits. As a result, hardware utilization ratio decreases, since it is very difficult to map different contexts, area efficiently. It also increases the context switching power, area and static power of the context-ID tracks. The proposed MC-FPGA uses the same wires to transfer both data and context-ID bits from cell to cell. As a result, programs can be mapped area efficiently by partitioning them into different contexts. An asynchronous multi-context logic block architecture to increase the processing speed of the multiple contexts is also proposed. The proposed MC-FPGA is fabricated using 6-metal 1-poly CMOS design rules. The data and context-ID transfer delays are measured to be 2.03ns and 2.26ns respectively. We achieved 30% processing time reduction for the SAD based correspondance search algorithm.

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