A hardware environment for prototyping and partitioning based on multiple FPGAs

This paper presents a multiple-FPGA-based experimentation board. The problem to be solved is that of implementing a circuit into a set of FPGAs. This board provides a hardware environment that can be used either as a prototyping board, allowing to test circuit designs, or as a hardware support for practically test and optimize partitioning algorithms. The former use address the problem of rapid prototyping while the latter is a contribution to the domain of hardware/software codesign. The environment consists of the printed circuit board itself, a set of Xilinx FPGAs, static RAM, a parallel and a serial interface. In this paper, the structure of the board will be presented, by pointing out its simplicity, power and exibility.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: EURODAC
• Authors: Marc Wendling, Wolfgang Rosenstiel
• Keywords: EURODAC 1994, Hardware/software Codesign, Printed Circuit Board, Test Circuit Designs, VHDL