Title
An adaptive FPGA and its distributed routing
Abstract
Every commercially available FPGA supplies high routing capabilities. However, placement and routing are pro- cessed by a computer before being sent to the chip. This non- adaptive feature does not fit well with bio-inspired applications such as growing systems or neural networks with changing topology. Therefore we propose a new kind of routing, built in hardware and totally distributed. Unlike previous works about routing, our approach does not need a central control over the process. In this paper we present a new FPGA embedding this algorithm, as well as the basic idea of our architecture, based on a parallel implementation of Lee shortest path algorithm. We then present a second algorithm that decreases the number of possible congestions, a third that reduces the execution time, and a fourth that combines both techniques. Finally we introduce different neighborhoods and compare all these algorithms in terms of area, speed, path length and congestion.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
ReCoSoC
chip,neural network,shortest path algorithm
Field
DocType
Citations 
Equal-cost multi-path routing,Link-state routing protocol,Computer science,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Constrained Shortest Path First,Private Network-to-Network Interface,Artificial neural network,Dijkstra's algorithm,K shortest path routing,Distributed computing
Conference
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.63
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yann Thoma114416.12
Eduardo Sanchez216314.64