120 results about "Fpga architecture" patented technology

In-place resynthesis for static memory (SRAM) based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) toward reducing sensitivity to single event upsets (SEUs). Resynthesis and remapping are described which have a low overheard and improve FPGA designs without the need of rerouting LUTs of the FPGA. These methods include in-place reconfiguration (IPR), in-place X-filling (IPF), and in-place inversion (IPV), which reconfigure LUT functions only, and can be applied to any FPGA architecture. In addition, for FPGAs with a decomposable LUT architecture (e.g., dual-output LUTs) an in-place decomposition (IPD) method is described for remapping a LUT function into multiple smaller functions leveraging the unused outputs of the LUT, and making use of built-in hard macros in programmable-logic blocks (PLBs) such as carry chain or adder. Methods are applied in-place to mapped circuits before or after routing without affecting placement, routing, and design closure.

The invention discloses a real-time stereoscopic vision implementation method based on FPGA. The implementation method operates in stereoscopic vision system which takes the FPGA as a core processing unit, has reasonable hardware structure, can meet the requirements of high-speed operation and high-seed transmission images, has multiple general interfaces and rich hardware resources, and can be further expanded and strengthened. Simultaneously a stereoscopic matching algorithm based on Census conversion is a non-parameterized matching method, is more robust for the conditions of non-uniform brightness, gain and the like, and improves the accuracy of the system. The invention adopts the reasonable hardware structure on the FPGA architecture, simultaneously implements a Census stereoscopic matching method by an ingenious logic design, and improves the accuracy and speed of stereoscopic vision implementation. Compared with the traditional method based on a general processor, the real-time stereoscopic vision implementation method utilizes parallel calculation and a reasonable production line design fully to map the algorithm on the structure, greatly improves the operating speed of the system, meets the requirements of high resolution, high accuracy and high speed and can be applicable to fields of autonomous vehicle navigation and the like.

An FPGA architecture has top, middle and low levels. The top level of the architecture is an array of the B16x16 tiles arranged in a rectangular array and enclosed by I/O blocks on the periphery. On each of the four sides of a B16x16 tile, and also associated with each of the I/O blocks is a freeway routing channel. A B16x16 tile in the middle level of hierarchy is a sixteen by sixteen array of B1 blocks. The routing resources in the middle level of hierarchy are expressway routing channels M1, M2, and M3 including groups of interconnect conductors. At the lowest level of the semi-hierarchical FPGA architecture, there are block connect (BC) routing channels, local mesh (LM) routing channels, and direct connect (DC) interconnect conductors. Each BC routing channel is coupled to an expressway tab to provide access for each B1 block to the expressway routing channels M1, M2, and M3, respectively. Each BC routing channel has nine interconnect conductors which are grouped into three groups of three interconnect conductors. Each group of three interconnect conductors is connected to a first side of a Extension Block (EB) 3x3 switch matrix. A second side of each EB 3x3 switch matrix is coupled to the E-tab. Between adjacent B1 blocks, in both the horizontal and vertical directions, the leads on the second side of a first EB 3x3 switch matrix may be coupled to the leads on the second side of second EB3x3 switch matrix by BC criss-cross extension.

A method and apparatus are provided for an error-correcting FPGA. ECC data for configuration is generated and programmed into the ECC rows in the configuration memory. While booting, it is determined whether an integrity-check bit is set. If so, an integrity check is performed. If a single-bit error is detected, if the bit error is an erroneous “0” value, the memory location containing the erroneous “0” value is reprogrammed to a “1” value. If the bit error is an erroneous “1,” value, the memory block data is saved in a non-volatile memory block, the configuration memory block containing the error is erased and reprogrammed using the corrected bit. If there is more than one error, an error flag is set. The user reads the status of the error flag through the JTAG port. If the error flag is set then a full reprogramming cycle is initiated.

The invention discloses an implementing method of FPGA (field programmable gate array) architecture of an HOG (histogram of oriented gradient) and SVM (support vector machine) based pedestrian detection system. The implementing method includes steps of inputting, gradient and direction computation, histogram generation, binaryzation, SVM classification and outputting. The invention further provides the FPGA (field programmable gate array) architecture of the HOG and SVM based pedestrian detection system. By the FPGA architecture and the implementing method thereof, the problem that an HOG and SVM based pedestrian detection algorithm is slow in computation on a PC(personal computer) is solved, transplant optimization of hardware is realized, the FPGA architecture of an embedded pedestrian detection system is implemented in the scheme with low power consumption, high detection efficiency and low resource consumption in real time, and thus, pedestrian detection is popularized and developed in the embedded field according to the scheme.

The invention discloses a SoC_FPGA-based flexible intelligent machine vision detection system. A SoC_FPGA serves as a central processing unit, and the SoC_FPGA is integrated with a power module, a clock module, an image sensor, a storage system, a power monitor, an I/O, and a transmission module. The SoC_FPGA comprises an HPS and an FPGA, and is integrated with an ARM hard core processor, a DSP and an FPGA. A programmable logic and a DRAM controller in the FPGA architecture form an image acquisition module used for acquiring and storing images. The programmable logic, a DSP module and an RAM module in the FPGA architecture form a custom accelerator used for image processing operation. The ARM hard core processor is loaded with an embedded operating system and a user program to manage hardware resources of the system. The machine vision detection system achieves high degree of integration and low cost.

An FPGA architecture has top, middle and low levels. The top level of the architecture is an array of the B16x16 tiles arranged in a rectangular array and enclosed by I/O blocks on the periphery. On each of the four sides of a B16x16 tile, and also associated with each of the I/O blocks is a freeway routing channel. A B16x16 tile in the middle level of hierarchy is a sixteen by sixteen array of B1 blocks. The routing resources in the middle level of hierarchy are expressway routing channels M1, M2, and M3 including groups of interconnect conductors. At the lowest level of the semi-hierarchical FPGA architecture, there are block connect (BC) routing channels, local mesh (LM) routing channels, and direct connect (DC) interconnect conductors to connect the logic elements to further routing resources. Within the B1 block, a horizontal BC routing channel is disposed between two upper and two lower clusters of devices, and a vertical BC routing channel is disposed between two clusters of devices on the left side of the B1 block and two clusters of devices on the right side of the B1 block. The BC routing channel forms intersections with the inputs and outputs of the devices in the clusters. The horizontal BC routing channel forms a first diagonally hardwired connection with a routing channel that effectively sends the horizontal BC routing channel in a vertical direction. A second diagonally hardwired connection pairwise shorts the horizontal and vertical BC routing channels to provide dual accessibility to the logic resources in the B1 block from more than one side. Disposed between the first diagonally hardwired connection and the second diagonally hardwired connection is a BC splitting extension which provides a programmable one-to-one coupling between the interconnect conductors of the horizontal BC routing channel on either side of the BC splitting extension.

A switch block for FPGA architectures combining hardware and software techniques in order to reduce both active and standby leakage power.

An FPGA architecture has top, middle and low levels. The top level is an array of B16×16 tiles enclosed by I/O blocks. The routing resources in the middle level are expressway routing channels including interconnect conductors. At the lowest level, there are block connect routing channels, local mesh routing channels, and direct connect interconnect conductors to connect the logic elements to further routing resources. Each B1 block includes four clusters of devices. Each of the clusters includes first and second LUT3s, a LUT2, and a DFF. Each of the LUT3s have three inputs and one output. Each of the LUT2s have two inputs and one output. Each DFF has a data input and a data output. In each of the clusters the outputs of the LUT3s are multiplexed to the input of DFF, and symmetrized with the output of the DFF to form two outputs of each of the clusters.

A DLL provides a deskew mode for aligning a reference clock that passes through a clock distribution tree to a feedback by adding additional delay to the feedback clock to align the feedback clock with reference clock at one cycle later. A 0 ns clock-to-out mode is provided by adding additional delay to account for an input buffer into a feedback path. The feedback clock can be doubled by a clock doubler with 50% duty cycle adjustment disposed in the feedback path. Flexible timing is aligning the reference clock to the feedback clock is obtained with additional delay elements disposed in the feedback and reference clock paths.

Methods and example implementations described herein are generally directed to Field-Programmable Gate-Arrays (FPGAs) or other programmable logic devices (PLDs) or other devices based thereon, and more specifically, to the addition of networks-on-chip (NoC) to FPGAs. This includes both modifications to the FPGA architecture and design flow. An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a Field-Programmable Gate-Array (FPGA) system. The FPGA system can include an FPGA having one or more lookup tables (LUTs) and wires, and a Network-on-Chip (NoC) having a hardened network topology configured to provide connectivity at a higher frequency that the FPGA. The NoC is coupled to the FPGA to provide a connectivity at a higher frequency that the FPGA.

A DLL provides a deskew mode for aligning a reference clock that passes through a clock distribution tree to a feedback by adding additional delay to the feedback clock to align the feedback clock with reference clock at one cycle later. A 0 ns clock-to-out mode is provided by adding additional delay to account for an input buffer into a feedback path. The feedback clock can be doubled by a clock doubler with 50% duty cycle adjustment disposed in the feedback path. Flexible timing is aligning the reference clock to the feedback clock is obtained with additional delay elements disposed in the feedback and reference clock paths.

An interconnect architecture for a programmable logic device comprises a plurality of interconnect routing lines. The data inputs of a plurality of first-level multiplexers are connected to the plurality of interconnect routing lines such that each interconnect routing line is connected to only one multiplexer. A plurality of second-level multiplexers are organized into multiplexer groups. Each of a plurality of lookup tables is associated with one of the multiplexer groups and has a plurality of lookup table inputs. Each lookup table input is coupled to the output of a different one of the second-level multiplexers in the one of the multiplexer groups with which it is associated. The data inputs of the second-level multiplexers are connected to the outputs of the first-level multiplexers such that each output of each first-level multiplexer is connected to an input of only one second-level multiplexer in each multiplexer group.

An FPGA architecture has top, middle and low levels. The top level of the architecture is an array of the B16x16 tiles arranged in a rectangular array and enclosed by I/O blocks on the periphery. A B16x16 tile in the middle level of hierarchy is a sixteen by sixteen array of B1 blocks. The B16x16 tile is a nesting of a B2x2 tile that includes a two by two array of four B1 blocks. The routing resources in the middle level of hierarchy are expressway routing channels M1, M2, and M3 including groups of interconnect conductors. The expressway routing channels M1, M2, and M3 are segmented, and between each of the segments in the expressway routing channels M1, M2, and M3 are disposed extensions that can extend the expressway routing channel M1, M2, or M3 an identical distance along the same direction. The expressway routing channels M1, M2, and M3 run both vertically through every column and horizontally through every row of B2x2 tiles. At the intersections of each of the expressway routing channels M1, M2, and M3 in the horizontal direction with the expressway routing channels M1, M2 and M3 in the vertical direction is an expressway-turn (E-turn) disposed at the center of each B2x2 tile. An E-turn is a passive device that includes a matrix of reprogrammable switches. The reprogrammable switches are preferably a pass device controlled by an SRAM bit. The interconnect conductors in the expressway routing channels M1, M2 and M3 that are fed into an E-turn may be coupled to many of the other interconnect conductors in the expressway routing channels M1, M2 and M3 that come into the E-turn by the programmable switches. Further, the interconnect conductors in the expressway routing channels M1, M2 and M3 that are fed into an E-turn continue in the same direction through the E-turn, even though the interconnect conductors are coupled to other interconnect conductors by the reprogrammable switches.