| Polymorphous fabric-based systems: Model, tools, applications, in "Journal of Systems Architecture (2003) | |||||||||||||||
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| Abstract — A Fabric Based System is a parameterized cellular architecture in which an array of computing cells communicates with an embedded processor through a global memory. This architecture is customizable to different classes of applications by funtional unit, interconnect, and memory parameters, and can be instantiated efficiently on platform FPGAs. In previous work [1], we have demonstrated the advantage of reconfigurable fabrics for image and signal processing applications. Recently, we have build a Fabric Generator FG, a Java-based toolset that greatly accelerates construction of the fabrics. A modulegeneration library is used to define, instantiate, and interconnect cells ’ datapaths. FG also generates customized sequencers for individual cells or collections of cells. We describe the Fabric-Based System model, the FG toolset, and concrete realizations of fabric architectures generated by FG on the Altera Excalibur | |||||||||||||||
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