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A Survey of Logic Block Architectures For Digital Signal Processing Applications
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Presentation Outline Considerations in Logic Block Design Computation Requirements Why Inefficiencies? Representative Logic Block Architectures Proposed Commercial Conclusions: What is suitable Where?
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Why DSP??? The Context Representative of computationally intensive class of applications datapath oriented and arithmetic oriented Increasingly large use of FPGAs for DSP multimedia signal processing, communications, and much more To study the “issues” in reconfigurable fabric design for compute intensive applications What is involved in making a fabric to accelerate multimedia reconfigurable computing possible?
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Elements of a Reconfigurable Architecture Logic Block/Processing Element Differing Grains Fine>>Coarse>>ALUs Routing Dynamic Reconfiguration
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So what’s wrong with the typical FPGA? Meant to be general purpose lower risks Toooo Flexible! Result: Efficiency Gap Higher Implementation Cost, Larger Delay, Larger Power Consumption than ASICs Performance vs. Flexibility Tradeoff Postponing Mapping and Silicon Re-use
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Solution? See how FPGAs are Used? FPGAs are being used for “classes” of applications Encryption, DSP, Multimedia etc. Here lies the Key Design FPGAs for a class of applications Application Domain Characterization Application Domain Tuning
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Domain Specialization COMPUTATION defines ARCHITECTURE Target Application Characteristics known beforehand? Yes 1. Characterize the application domain 2. Determine a balance b/w flexibilty vs efficiency 3. Tune the architecture according
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Categorizing the “Computation” Control Random Logic Implementation Datapath Processing of Multi-bit Data Conflicting Requirements???
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Datapath Element Requirements Operates on Word Slices or Bit Slices Produces multi-bit outputs Requires many smaller elements to produce each bit output i.e. multiple small LUTs
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Control Logic Requirements Produces a single output from many single bit inputs Benefits from large grain LUT as logic levels gets reduced
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Logic Block Design: Considerations “How much” of “what kinds” of computations to support? Tradeoff: Generality vs Specialization
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How much of What? Applications benchmarking
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So what do we have to support? Datapath functionality, in particular arithmetic, is dominant in DSP. The datapath functions have different bit-widths. DSP designs heavily use multiplexers of various size. Thus, an efficient mapping of multiplexers should be supported. DSP functions do contain random logic. The amount of random logic varies per design. Some DSP designs use wide boolean functions.
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DSP Building Blocks Some techniques widely used to achieve area- speed efficient DSP implementations Bit Serial Computations Routing Efficient Bit Level Pipelining Increases throughput even more Digit Serial Computation Combining “Area efficiency” of bit-serial and with “Time efficiency” of Bit-parallel
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Classes of DSP-optimized FPGA Architectures 1. Architectures with Dedicated DSP Logic Homogeneous Hetrogeneous Globally Homogeneous, Locally Heterogenous 2. Architectures of Coarser Granularity 3. With DSP Specific Improvements (e.g. Carry Chains, Input Sharing, CBS)
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Some Representative Architectures
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Bit-Serial FPGA with SR LUT Bit-serial paradigm suites the existing FPGA so why not optimize the FPGA for it! Logic block to support efficient implementation of bit-serial data path and bit-level pipelining LUTs can be used for combinational logic as well as for Shift Registers
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A Bit-Serial Adder A Bit-Serial Adder which processes two bits at a time Interface Block Diagram
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A Bit-Serial Multiplier Cell
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The Proposed Bit Serial Logic Block Architecture 4x4-input LUTs and 6 flip-flops. The two multiplexers in front of the LUTs are targeted mainly for carry-save operations which are frequently used in bit- serial computations. There are 18 signal inputs and 6 signal outputs, plus a clock input. Feed-back inputs c2, c3, c4, c5 can be connected to either GND or VDD or to one of the 4 outputs d0, d1, d2, d3. Therefore, each LUT can implement any 4-input functions controlled by inputs a0, a1, a2, a3 or b0, b1, b2, b3. Programmable switches connected to inputs a4 and b4 control the functionality of the four multiplexers at the output of LUTs. As a result, 2 LUTs can implement any 5-input functions. The final outputs d0, d1, d2, d3 can either be the direct outputs from the multiplexers or the outputs from flip-flops. All bit-serial operators use the outputs from flip-flops; therefore the attached programmable switches are actually unnecessary. They are only present in order to implement any other logic functions other than bit-serial datapath circuits. Two flip-flops are added (inputs c0 and c1) to implement shift registers which are frequently used in bit-serial operations.
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The Modified LUT Implementing a Shift Register
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Performance Results
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Digit-Serial Logic Block Architecture Digit–Serial Architectures process one digit (N=4 bits) at a time They offer area efficiency similar to bit- serial architectures and time-efficiency close to bit-parallel architectures N=4 bits can serve as an optimal granularity for processing larger digit sizes (N=8,16 etc)
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Digit-Serial Building Blocks A Digit-Serial Adder A Digit-Serial Unsigned Multiplier
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Digit-Serial Building Blocks A Pipelined Digit-Serial Unsigned Multiplier For Y=8 bits
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Digit-Serial Signed Multiplier Blocks Middle Stages ModuleFirst Stage ModuleLast Stage Module
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Signed Digit-Serial Multiplier A Digit-Serial Signed Booth’s Pipelined Multiplier with Y=8
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Proposed Digit-Serial Logic Block
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Detailed Structure of Digit-Serial Logic Block
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The Basic Logic Module (LM) The Structure of the LM Table of Functions Implemented
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Examples of Implementations N=4 Unsigned Multiplier N=4 Signed Multiplier Two N=2 Multipliers Bit-Level Pipelined
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Area Comparison with Xilinx 4000 Series
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Mixed-Grain Logic Block Architecture Exploits the adder inverting property Efficiently implements both datapath and random logic in the same logic block design
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Adder Inverting Property Full Adder and Equations Showing The Inverting Property An optimal structure derived from the property
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LUT Bits Utilization in Datapath and Logic Modes
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Structure of a Single Slice
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Complete Logic Block
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Modified ALU Like Functionality
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Comparison Results
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Comparison Results (Cont…)
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Comparison Results (cont…)
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Coarser ALU Like Architectures
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CHESS Architecture
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CHESS ALU Based Logic Block
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Structure of a Switch Box
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Comparison Results
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Computation Field Programmable Architecture A Heterogeneous architecture with cluster of datapath logic blocks Separate LUT Based Logic Blocks for supporting random logic mapping Basic Logic Block called a Partial Adder Subtraction Multiplier (PASM) Module
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PASM Logic Block of CFPA
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Cluster of PASM Logic Blocks
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Comparison Results
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Some Industry Architectures Designs
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Altera APEX II Logic Element
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Altera MAX II Logic Element
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LE Configuration in Arithmetic Mode
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LE in Random Logic Implementation
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Altera Stratix Logic Element
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Altera Stratix II Architecture
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Stratix II Adaptive Logic Module
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Stratix II ALM in Arithmetic Mode
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Various Configurations in an ALM of Stratix II
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Multiplier Resources in Stratix II
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Structure of a DSP Block in Stratix II
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XILINX Virtex II Pro Architecture
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Basic Logic Element of Virtex II Pro
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Dedicated Multipliers in Virtex II Pro
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Processor- Programmable Logic Coupled Architecture
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PiCoGA Architecture Coupled with a VLIW processor
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PiCoGA Logic Block
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Conclusions Traditional general purpose FPGA inefficient for data path mapping Logic blocks with DSP specific enhancements seem a promising solution Coarse Grained Logic can achieve better application mapping for data path but sacrifice flexibility Dedicated Blocks (Multipliers) increase performance but also increases cost significantly
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Conclusions PDSPs with embedded FPGA can achieve a good balance between performance and power consumption So…Which approach is the best? No single best exists
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Suitability of Approaches Highly computationally intensive applications with large amounts of parallelism can use platform FPGAs where often large resources are required and power consumption is not an issue. Here cost/function will be lowest
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Suitability of Approaches Field Programmable Logic based coprocessors can benefit from coarse grained blocks where most control functions are implemented by the PDSP itself
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Suitability of Approaches Higher flexibility and lower cost can be achieved with logic blocks with DSP specific enhancements but flexibility to implement control logic in an efficient manner.
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