Introduction
A hybrid FPGA consists of a combination of coarse-grained and fine-grained reconfigurable elements.
The fine-grained resources in the FPGA consistof a grid of identical configurable logic blocks (CLBs), each containing look up tables (LUTs) and flip flops (FFs).
Coarse-grained elements can implement a specific function more efficiently than fine-grained programmable logic. DSP, memory and floating point unit (FPU) are examples of the coarse-grained embedded blocks (EBs). Figure 1. shows an example of hybrid FPGA.
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![]() Figure 1. An example of hybrid FPGA |
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VPH is a modified version of the VPR tool to explore hybrid FPGA architecture.
New features of VPH:
Figure 2(a) and 2(b) shows the VPH place and route result of dscg circuit with four floating point units (purple in color).
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Figure 2(a) succeeded place and route of dscg using VPH (purple blocks are floating point units) | Figure 2(b), nets connection after place and route of dscg in VPH |
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