Designing an application for field programmable gate arrays: a case study
Bernd Däne · Common Library Network (Der Gemeinsame Bibliotheksverbund) · 2010
This paper reports about a case study for designing an application for multiple programmable logic devices.It is based on a project with a decentralized communication system for a multiprocessor system.A fast serial communication system is implemented into one programmable logic device per processing node.Design tasks include system and data format design as well as structural synthesis.This case study focuses at evaluating a design flow that starts with high level modeling.Therefore the system was modeled using the Matlab/Simulink tool family and subsequently was transformed into logic design.Some qualitative and quantitative properties have been evaluated by simulation at high level and at low level, leading to some conclusions about practical use of such a design flow.