With the proliferation of Field-Programmable System-onChip (FPSoC) devices such as Altera Excalibur and Xilinx Virtex II Pro, more system integrators are now facing the challenge of merging hardware and software design. This paper describes software-compiled system design, a methodology supporting the design of electronics containing both programmable logic and software-driven microprocessors. ...

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are flexible programmable devices that are used in a wide variety of applications such as network routing, signal processing, pattern recognition and rapid prototyping. Unfortunately, the flexibility of the FPGA hinders its performance due to the additional logic resources required for the programmable hardware. Today’s fastest FPGAs run in the 250 MHz ran...

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Programmable logic devices (PLDs) are increasing in complexity and speed, and are being used as important components in safety-critical systems. Methods for developing high-integrity software for these systems are well-known, but this is not true for programmable logic. We propose a process for developing a system incorporating software and PLDs, suitable for safety critical systems of the high...

Double-gate carbon nanotube field effect transistors (DGCNTFETs) are novel devices showing an interesting property allowing to control the por n-type behavior during the device operation. This opens up the opportunity for novel design paradigms. Based on a compact physical model of these devices, we demonstrate the benefit of designing field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) using fine-grain DG-...

This paper presents a summary of a study into the possibility of integration of eld programmable logic and optoelectronic devices. Our primary motivation is a recent development of dynamically recon-gurable FPGAs (DR FPGAs), for which the reconnguration time has a mandatory impact on their performance. We review limitations of DR FPGAs, discuss advantages of optically reconngurable logic, inves...

The new vision presented is aimed to overcome the logic overhead issues that previous works exhibit when applying GALS techniques to programmable logic devices. The proposed new view relies in a 2-phase, bundled data parity based protocol for data transfer and clock generation tasks. The ability of the introduced methodology for smart real-time delay selection allows the implementation of a var...

In 1985, Lattice Semiconductor introduced a new type of programmable logic device (PLD) that transformed the PLD market: the Generic Array Logic (GAL) device. The E2CMOS® technology of the GAL devices gave them significant advantages over their bipolar PAL counterparts; not only could GAL devices be programmed quickly and efficiently, but they could also be erased and reprogrammed. Today, Latti...