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FPGA-based Implementation of Signal Processing Systems, 2nd Edition

by Roger Woods, John McAllister, Gaye Lightbody, Ying Yi

May 2017

Intermediate to advanced

360 pages

11h 42m

English

Wiley

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1.1 Introduction1.2 Field Programmable Gate Arrays1.3 Influence of Programmability1.4 Challenges of FPGAsBibliography
2.1 Introduction2.2 Definition of DSP Systems2.3 DSP Transformations2.4 Filters2.5 Adaptive Filtering2.6 Final CommentsBibliography
3.1 Introduction3.2 Number Representations3.3 Arithmetic Operations3.4 Alternative Number Representations3.5 Division3.6 Square Root3.7 Fixed-Point versus Floating-Point3.8 ConclusionsBibliography
4.1 Introduction4.2 Implications of Technology Scaling4.3 Architecture and Programmability4.4 DSP Functionality Characteristics4.5 Microprocessors4.6 DSP Processors4.7 Graphical Processing Units4.8 System-on-Chip Solutions4.9 Heterogeneous Computing Platforms4.10 ConclusionsBibliography
5.1 Introduction5.2 Toward FPGAs5.3 Altera Stratix® V and 10 FPGA Family5.4 Xilinx UltrascaleTM/Virtex-7 FPGA families 5.5 Xilinx Zynq FPGA Family5.6 Lattice iCE40isp FPGA Family5.7 MicroSemi RTG4 FPGA Family5.8 Design Stratregies for FPGA-based DSP Systems5.9 ConclusionsBibliography
6.1 Introduction6.2 FPGA Functionality6.3 Mapping to LUT-Based FPGA Technology6.4 Fixed-Coefficient DSP6.5 Distributed Arithmetic6.6 Reduced-Coefficient Multiplier6.7 ConclusionsBibliography
7.1 Introduction7.2 High-Level Synthesis7.3 Xilinx Vivado7.4 Control Logic Extraction Phase Example7.5 Altera SDK for OpenCL7.6 Other HLS Tools7.7 ConclusionsBibliography
8.1 Introduction8.2 DSP Algorithm Characteristics8.3 DSP Algorithm Representations8.4 Pipelining DSP Systems8.5 Parallel Operation8.6 ConclusionsBibliography

9.1 Introduction9.2 Motivation for Design for Reuse9.3 Intellectual Property Cores9.4 Evolution of IP cores9.5 Parameterizable (Soft) IP Cores9.6 IP Core Integration9.7 Current FPGA-based IP cores9.8 Watermarking IP9.9 SummaryBibliography
10.1 Introduction10.2 Dataflow Modeling of DSP Systems10.3 Architectural Synthesis of Custom Circuit Accelerators from DFGs10.4 Model-Based Development of Multi-Channel Dataflow Accelerators10.5 Model-Based Development for Memory-Intensive Accelerators10.6 SummaryNotesBibliography
11.1 Introduction to Adaptive Beamforming11.2 Generic Design Process11.3 Algorithm to Architecture11.4 Efficient Architecture Design11.5 Generic QR Architecture11.6 Retiming the Generic Architecture11.7 Parameterizable QR Architecture11.8 Generic Control11.9 Beamformer Design Example11.10 SummaryBibliography
12.1 Introduction12.2 Big Data12.3 Big Data Analytics12.4 Acceleration12.5 k-Means Clustering FPGA Implementation12.6 FPGA-Based Soft Processors12.7 System Hardware12.8 ConclusionsBibliography
13.1 Introduction13.2 Sources of Power Consumption13.3 FPGA Power Consumption13.4 Power Consumption Reduction Techniques13.5 Dynamic Voltage Scaling in FPGAs13.6 Reduction in Switched Capacitance13.7 Final CommentsBibliography
14.1 Introduction14.2 Evolution in FPGA Design Approaches14.3 Big Data and the Shift toward Computing14.4 Programming Flow for FPGAs14.5 Support for Floating-Point Arithmetic14.6 Memory ArchitecturesBibliography

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7 Synthesis Tools for FPGAs

7.1 Introduction

In the 1980s, the VHSIC program was launched which was a major initiative to identify the need for high-level tools for the next generation of integrated circuits. From this the VHDL language and associated synthesis tools were developed; these were seen as a step function for the design of integrated circuits and, until recently, represented the key design entry mechanism for FPGAs. To avoid the high license costs which would act to prevent FPGA users from using their technology, each of the main vendors developed their own tools.

To a great extent, though, this has strengthened the view of FPGAs as a hardware technology, something that is viewed as difficult to program. For this reason, we have seen a major interest in developing high-level synthesis (HLS) tools to make this a more easily programmable technology for software developers. Xilinx has launched the Vivado tools which allow users to undertake C-based synthesis using Xilinx FPGA technology. Altera have developed an approach based on OpenCL, called SDK for Open Computing Language, which allows users to exploit the parallel version of C, developed for GPUs.

A number of other tools have been developed, including C-based synthesis tools both in the commercial (Catapult^® and Impulse-C) and academic (GAUT, CAL and LegUp) domain with some focus on FPGA, and higher-level tools such as dataflow-based synthesis tools. The tools that have been chosen and described in this chapter ...