TY - GEN
T1 - An emulation system of the WASMII
T2 - 6th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 1996
AU - Shibata, Yuichiro
AU - Ling, Xiao Ping
AU - Amano, Hideharu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1996.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - WASMII is a virtual hardware system which exploits dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs with a data driven control mechanism. In this paper, an emulation system of the WASMII is proposed and designed. A virtual hardware mechanism is emulated by using two FPGAs which can be on-the-fly partial reconfiguration. In the system, all configuration data which is not activated is stored in the off-chip backup RAMs and loaded into the FPGA on demand as well as virtual memory. The control units of this system are synthesized with approximately 1,500 gates from a VHDL description, and analyzed by a simulation tool. Through the analysis, it is shown that by making the best use of the hardware table and register structure tailored to each application, the system works at 10 MHz. Executing results of simple non-linear system simulation are also presented.
AB - WASMII is a virtual hardware system which exploits dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs with a data driven control mechanism. In this paper, an emulation system of the WASMII is proposed and designed. A virtual hardware mechanism is emulated by using two FPGAs which can be on-the-fly partial reconfiguration. In the system, all configuration data which is not activated is stored in the off-chip backup RAMs and loaded into the FPGA on demand as well as virtual memory. The control units of this system are synthesized with approximately 1,500 gates from a VHDL description, and analyzed by a simulation tool. Through the analysis, it is shown that by making the best use of the hardware table and register structure tailored to each application, the system works at 10 MHz. Executing results of simple non-linear system simulation are also presented.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-61730-2_6
DO - 10.1007/3-540-61730-2_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84955618853
SN - 9783540617303
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 55
EP - 64
BT - Field-Programmable Logic
A2 - Hartenstein, Reiner W.
A2 - Glesner, Manfred
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 23 September 1996 through 25 September 1996
ER -