Multi-FPGA Systems Synthesis by Means of Evolutionary Computation

Abstract. Multi-FPGA systems (MFS) are used for a great variety of applications, for instance, dynamically re-configurable hardware applications, digital circuit emulation, and numerical computation. There are a great variety of boards for MFS implementation. In this paper a methodology for MFS design is presented. The techniques used are evolutionary programs and they solve all of the design tasks (partitioning placement and routing). Firstly a hybrid compact genetic algorithm solves the partitioning problem and then genetic programming is used to obtain a solution for the two other tasks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: GECCO
• Authors: José Ignacio Hidalgo, Francisco Fernández de Vega, Juan Lanchares, Juan Manuel Sánchez-Pérez, Román Hermida, Marco Tomassini, Ranieri Baraglia, Raffaele Perego, Oscar Garnica
• Keywords: GECCO 2003, Great Variety, MFS Implementation, Re-configurable Hardware Applications