A Top-Down Optimization Methodology for Mutually Exclusive Applications. (17th February 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kilic, Alp; Marrakchi, Zied; Mehrez, Habib
• Other Names: Nedjah Nadia Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: International journal of reconfigurable computing. Volume 2014(2014)
• Publication Date: 2014-02-17
• Subjects: Adaptive computing systems -- Periodicals; Adaptive computing systems; Periodicals; 004
• DOI: 10.1155/2014/827613
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-7195

Abstract

Abstract : Proliferation of mutually exclusive applications on circuits and the higher cost of silicon make the resource sharing more and more important. The state-of-the-art synthesis tools may often be unsatisfactory. Their efficiency may depend on the hardware description style. Nevertheless, today, different applications in a circuit can be developed by different developers. This paper proposes an efficient method to improve resource sharing between mutually exclusive applications with no dependence on the coding style. It takes the advantage of the possibility of resource sharing as done in FPGA and of predefined multiple functions as in ASIC.