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Pipeline morphing is a simple but effective technique for reconfiguring pipelined FPGA designs at run time. By overlapping computation and reconfiguration, the latency associated with emptying and refilling a pipeline can be avoided. We show how morphing can be applied to linear and mesh pipelines at both word-level and bit-level, and explain how this method can be implemented using Xilinx 6200 FPGAs. We also present an approach using morphing to map a large virtual pipeline onto a small physical pipeline, and the trade-offs involved are discussed.
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Luk, W., Shirazi, N., Guo, S.R., Cheung, P.Y.K. (1997). Pipeline morphing and virtual pipelines. In: Luk, W., Cheung, P.Y.K., Glesner, M. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic and Applications. FPL 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1304. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63465-7_216
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