As the concept of reconfigurable computing proliferates over an increasingly wide range, the relative capability of commercially available hardware platforms becomes increasingly important. In this paper, we present a review of current digital solutions to reconfigurable computing, with particular emphasis placed on modern Field Programmable Logic devices. Current hardwareprogression trends in ...

The author in his research has focused on real time digital controllers which traditionally are designed as finite state machines or Petri nets. Such controllers can be effectively modelled with some subset of UML statecharts and next can directly be implemented in programmable logic devices (for example FPGA). This transformation is being realized by a system known as HiCoS (abbreviation comes...

This paper presents an introduction to digital hardware design using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). After a historical introduction and a quick overview of digital design, the internal structure of a generic FPGA is discussed. Then we describe the design flow, i.e. the steps needed to go from design idea to actual working hardware. Digital signal processing is an important area where F...

stored or otherwise retained in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form, on any medium or by any means Abstract The objective of this thesis is to investigate the applicability of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for residue arithmetic applications. FPGAs are programmable devices that can be directly configured by the end user without the use of an integrated circuit fabrication fac...

Most SCADA devices have few built-in self-defence mechanisms, and tend to implicitly trust communications received over the network. Therefore, monitoring and forensic analysis of network traffic is a critical prerequisite for building an effective defense around SCADA units. In this work, we provide a comprehensive forensic analysis of network traffic generated by the PCCC(Programmable Control...

Discussions are advocated regarding the merits of Heterogeneous Technology Configurable Fabrics (HTCFs) to realize the needed architectural abstraction as a pathway to manage Extreme Heterogeneity (EH) facing High Performance Computing (HPC) in the post-Moore era. HTCFs are reconfigurable logic arrays that leverage the cooperative roles of emerging spintronic and CMOS devices within a runtime a...