Memory synthesis for FPGA-Based reconfigurable computers

For data intensive applications like Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing, and Pattern Recognition, memory reads and writes constitute a large portion of the total design execution time. With the advent of on-chip memories, a rich hierarchy of physical memories is now available on a Reconfigu...

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Main Author: Ouaiss, Iyad (author)
Other Authors: Kasat, Amit (author), Vemuri, Ranga (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/5809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44687-7_8
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-44687-7_8
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Summary:For data intensive applications like Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing, and Pattern Recognition, memory reads and writes constitute a large portion of the total design execution time. With the advent of on-chip memories, a rich hierarchy of physical memories is now available on a Reconfigurable Computer (RC). An intelligent usage of these memories can lead to a significant improvement in the latency of the overall design. This paper presents an automated heuristic-based memory mapping framework for RCs. We use a Tabu search guided heuristic, Rectangle Carving, to map a single data structure onto several instances of a memory type on the RC. We also introduce control logic to resolve potential memory access conflicts and to make the details of memory mapping transparent to the accessing logic.