Multiple-Wordlength Resource Binding

This paper describes a novel resource binding technique for use in multiple-wordlength systems implemented in FPGAs. It is demonstrated that the multiple-wordlength binding problem is significantly different for addition and multiplication, and techniques to share resources between several operations are examined for FPGA architectures. A novel formulation of the resource binding problem is presented as an optimal colouring problem on a resource conflict graph, and several algorithms are developed to solve this problem. Results collected from many sequencing graphs illustrate the effectiveness of the heuristics developed in this paper, demonstrating significant area reductions over more traditional approaches.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: FPL
• Authors: George A. Constantinides, Peter Y. K. Cheung, Wayne Luk
• Keywords: Binding Problem, FPL 2000, Hardware, Multiple-wordlength Binding Problem, Resource Binding