High Performance Integer Arithmetic Circuit Design on FPGA: Architecture, Implementation and Design Automation

Ayan Palchaudhuri · Rajat Subhra Chakraborty

Jul 2015 · Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics Book 51 · Springer

About this ebook

This book describes the optimized implementations of several arithmetic datapath, controlpath and pseudorandom sequence generator circuits for realization of high performance arithmetic circuits targeted towards a specific family of the high-end Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). It explores regular, modular, cascadable and bit-sliced architectures of these circuits, by directly instantiating the target FPGA-specific primitives in the HDL. Every proposed architecture is justified with detailed mathematical analyses. Simultaneously, constrained placement of the circuit building blocks is performed, by placing the logically related hardware primitives in close proximity to one another by supplying relevant placement constraints in the Xilinx proprietary “User Constraints File”. The book covers the implementation of a GUI-based CAD tool named FlexiCore integrated with the Xilinx Integrated Software Environment (ISE) for design automation of platform-specific high-performance arithmetic circuits from user-level specifications. This tool has been used to implement the proposed circuits, as well as hardware implementations of integer arithmetic algorithms where several of the proposed circuits are used as building blocks. Implementation results demonstrate higher performance and superior operand-width scalability for the proposed circuits, with respect to implementations derived through other existing approaches. This book will prove useful to researchers, students and professionals engaged in the domain of FPGA circuit optimization and implementation.

About the author

Ayan Palchaudhuri is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (E&ECE) of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He has received the M.S. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), IIT Kharagpur, in 2015. He has over two-and-a-half years of work experience as a Junior Project Assistant in the Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur. His research interests include VLSI Architecture Design and Computer Arithmetic. He is the co-author of two conference papers, one journal, one book chapter and a patent has been filed based on his research work. His research work has been recognized with the Best Poster Award in the Student Research Symposium of the 21st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) 2014.

Rajat Subhra Chakraborty is Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University (Ohio, U.S.A.) and a B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University (India) in 2005. He has work experience at National Semiconductor and AMD. His research interests include: Hardware Security, VLSI Design and Design Automation and Reversible Watermarking for digital content protection. He is the co-author of two published books, four book chapters and over 50 publications in international journals and conferences of repute. He is one of the recipients of the "IBM Faculty Award" for 2012, and a "Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.) Fellowship" in 2014. He holds 1 U.S. patent, and 2 more international patents and 3 Indian patents have been filed based on his research work. Dr. Chakraborty is a member of IEEE and ACM.