TY - GEN
T1 - Soft timing closure for soft programmable logic cores
T2 - 13th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, ARC 2017
AU - Bollengier, Théotime
AU - Lagadec, Loïc
AU - Najem, Mohamad
AU - Le Lann, Jean Christophe
AU - Guilloux, Pierre
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Reconfigurable cores support post-release updates which shortens time-to-market while extending circuits’ lifespan. Reconfigurable cores can be provided as hard cores (ASIC) or soft cores (RTL). Soft reconfigurable cores outperform hard reconfigurable cores by preserving the ASIC synthesis flow, at the cost of lowering scalability but also exacerbating timing closure issues. This article tackles these two issues and introduces the ARGen generator that produces scalable soft reconfigurable cores. The architectural template relies on injecting flipflops into the interconnect, to favor easy and accurate timing estimation. The cores are compliant with the academic standard for place and route environment, making ARGen a one stop shopping point for whoever needs exploitable soft reconfigurable cores.
AB - Reconfigurable cores support post-release updates which shortens time-to-market while extending circuits’ lifespan. Reconfigurable cores can be provided as hard cores (ASIC) or soft cores (RTL). Soft reconfigurable cores outperform hard reconfigurable cores by preserving the ASIC synthesis flow, at the cost of lowering scalability but also exacerbating timing closure issues. This article tackles these two issues and introduces the ARGen generator that produces scalable soft reconfigurable cores. The architectural template relies on injecting flipflops into the interconnect, to favor easy and accurate timing estimation. The cores are compliant with the academic standard for place and route environment, making ARGen a one stop shopping point for whoever needs exploitable soft reconfigurable cores.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85017536632
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-56258-2_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-56258-2_9
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85017536632
SN - 9783319562575
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 93
EP - 105
BT - Applied Reconfigurable Computing - 13th International Symposium, ARC 2017, Proceedings
A2 - Beck, Antonio Carlos
A2 - Carro , Luigi
A2 - Wong, Stephan
A2 - Bertels , Koen
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 3 April 2017 through 7 April 2017
ER -