IMPROVED TIME-MULTIPLEXED FPGA ARCHITECTURE AND ALGORITHM FOR MINIMIZING COMMUNICATION COST DESIGNS

Abstract

The Time-Multiplexed FPGA (TMFPGA) architecture can improve dramatically logic utilization by time-sharing logic but it needs a large amount of registers among sub-circuits for partitioning the given sequential circuits. In this paper, we propose an improved TMFPGA architecture to simplify the precedence constraints so that the number of the registers among sub-circuits can be reduced for sequential circuits partitioning. To demonstrate the practicability of the architecture, we also present a greedy algorithm to minimize the maximum number of the registers. Experimental results demonstrate the effectives of the algorithm.