A paper published by Chris Lavin at this year's FPL conference received the FPL 2011 Community Service Award. The paper described RapidSmith, an open-source Xilinx FPGA CAD framework developed within the B1-10 and B1-11 projects.
CHREC XML is a set of extensions to the IP description meta-data standard IP-XACT which enables automatic synthesis of interfaces for homogeneous sychronous dataflow systems. It includes extensions for parameters, high-level data types, and H-SDF interfaces.
We are interested in the research of high-performance systems that are based on FPGAs and FPGA-like devices. Research areas that are of current interest include: run-time reconfiguration, hybrid FPGA architecture, DSPs and FPGAs, and application-specific processors. The lab has a strong applications focus and has developed applications, demonstrations, and tutorials for many of the currently available FPGA platforms.
