Automated Synthesis for Asynchronous FPGAs


Song Peng, David Fang, John Teifel, and Rajit Manohar
Proc. of International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA).
Monterrey, CA,
February, 2005.
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Abstract

   We present an automatic logic synthesis method targeted for high-performance asynchronous FPGA (AFPGA) architectures. Our method transforms sequential programs as well as high-level descriptions of asynchronous circuits into fine-grain asynchronous process netlists suitable for an AFPGA. The resulting circuits are inherently pipelined, and can be physically mapped onto our AFPGA with standard partitioning and place-and-route algorithms. For a wide variety of benchmarks, our automatic synthesis method not only yields comparable logic densities and performance to those achieved by hand placement, but also attains a throughput close to the peak performance of the FPGA.

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