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Mesh of Trees FPGA Architecture: Exploration and Optimization by Khouloud Bouaziz; Sonda Chtourou; Zied Marrakchi; Abdulfattah M. Obeid; Mohamed Abid is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.

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The design of large devices suggests fundamental and efficient innovation in the field programmable gate array (FPGA) interconnect structure to improve power consumption, density, and performance. Mesh-based FPGA architectures are generally designed to maximize logic utilization and to ensure layout scalability whereas tree-based FPGA architectures are designed to increase interconnect utilization. In this article, we propose a new mesh of trees (MoTs) FPGA architecture where we try to benefit from mesh of clusters (MoCs) FPGA layout scalability and tree-based FPGA efficient intracluster interconnect utilization, thanks to the butterfly fat-tree (BFT) topology. In order to attain the efficient use of the proposed routing interconnect resources, we develop computer-aided design (CAD) tools that respond to the target MoTs FPGA features. In addition, we define the power, area, and delay metric models according to the proposed architecture criteria. The experimentation results show that MoTs architecture with a cluster arity 32 offers the best tradeoff between power, area, and delay. Furthermore, we conduct a comparison between MoTs and MoCs FPGAs in general and the best MoTs and MoCs

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Author

Khouloud Bouaziz; Sonda Chtourou; Zied Marrakchi; Abdulfattah M. Obeid; Mohamed Abid

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)