RaPiD - Reconfigurable Pipelined Datapath

Increasing nonrecurring engineering and mask costs are making it harder to turn to hardwired application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) solutions for high-performance applications. The volume required to amortize these high costs has been increasing,...

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become an extremely popular implementation technology for custom hardware because they offer a combination of low cost and very fast turnaround. Because of their in-system reconfigurability, FPGAs have also ...

Reconfigurable systems have been shown to achieve significant performance speedup through architectures that map the most time-consuming application kernel modules or inner loops to a reconfigurable datapath. As each portion of the application starts to ...