In this paper we present a design case study using Handel-C—a recently developed programming language for compilation of high-level programs directly into FPGA hardware. The design is an 8-bit RISC microcontroller core with 33 instructions, prescaler and a programmable timer. Handel-C was used throughout the entire design and debugging flow. The RISC microcontroller design was implemented in on...

Custom computing machines have demonstrated their superiority over general-purpose processors in computation-intense applications. In this paper, we investigate the use of an FPGA system to implement an automated sensor self-validation algorithm for cupola furnaces. The system was implemented on two different families of FPGA boards. Details of the software algorithm and the FPGA hardware imple...

In this paper, we describe our current work on developing tools for experimental evaluation of the efficiency of implemented countermeasures against differential fault attacks on cryptographic cores in the FPGA based systems. The developed fault injection platform enables us to analyze the impact of injected faults at the selected points of the FPGA in its run time operation. In its compact ver...

This paper presents a case study targeting the Aptix MP4 board and Xilinx VirtexE FPGAs, for digital TV application prototyping. The difficult FPGA prototyping issues typically encountered by engineers are illustrated on a big industrial example. Due to the increasing ASIC complexity, the basic challenge was to meet the project deadlines. To enable faster FPGA-based prototyping, both the ASIC d...

This paper reports on the implementation of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) on an Atmel AT6005 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The work was carried out as an experiment in mapping a bit-level, logically intensive application onto the specific logic resources of a fine-grained FPGA. By exploiting the reconfiguration capabilities of the Atmel FPGA, individual layers of the network are ti...

"Cadence provides the FPGA-based Protium platform with emulation-like are certainly supportable, with the manual optimizations described above. Yet, the Frank offered some details on the Protium “FPGA-based emulation” methodology. In respect to methodology you of course can refer to the FPGA-based Prototyping Methodology Manual, FPMM. (English and Japanese versions, 英語版と日本語. This survey data is...

Networked reconfiguration is an enabling technology for cost effective service deployment and maintenance. A hardware virtual machine to enable this networked reconfiguration is presented. An abstract FPGA model is the core of such a hardware virtual machine. Based on this abstract FPGA model, the traditional implementation flow of FPGA has been separated into two parts: the service provider’s ...

The development of digital IIR (Infinite Impulse Response) filter is done on VIRTEX-6 FPGA using VHDL (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language) in XILINX Integrated Software Environment. IIR filter is analytically simulated by simulink environment in MATLAB. The digital data output of A/D converter is sent through IIR module in FPGA. Testing and debugging IIR module is ...

The scientific community has been using FPGA-based computation engines as cellular automata (CA) accelerators for some time now. With the recent advent of more advanced FPGA logic it becomes necessary to better understand the mapping of CA to these systems. In this paper, we present a methodology to predict the performance of running such CA on specific FPGA hardware before engineering the desi...