Title
Performance analysis and optimization of cluster-based mesh FPGA architectures: design methodology and CAD tool support
Abstract
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become an attractive implementation medium for digital circuits. FPGA design's big challenge is to find a good trade-off between flexibility and performance in terms of power dissipation, area density, and delay. This paper presents a new cluster-based FPGA architecture combining mesh and hierarchical interconnect topologies. Based on experimental method and benchmarks circuit implementation, this work provides a detailed exploration and analyses of the effect of cluster functionality on the proposed cluster-based FPGA in terms of power dissipation, area density, and delay. The exploration results showed that architecture with high cluster size provides high speed performance and low power dissipation. We noted also that architecture with small cluster size is more efficient in terms of area. Look-up-table (LUT) exploration showed that using architecture with 4-input LUT offers the best trade-off between power dissipation, area density, and delay.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3906/elk-1506-51
TURKISH JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Field programmable gate arrays,mesh of clusters architecture,computer-aided design tools,architecture exploration,performance analysis
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3.0
1300-0632
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sonda Chtourou1104.59
Zied Marrakchi215228.68
Emna Amouri3397.83
Vinod Pangracious4418.11
Abid Mohamed53919.08
Habib Mehrez620039.21