Projeto e Implementação de um Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

Abstract

This work presents the development of a custom SRAM island-style FPGA, covering the information needed and the steps involved in hardware implementation, bitstream configuration and design alternatives to facilitate the overall implementation effort from an academic point of view. To achieve state of the art products, commercial FPGAs can employ a large team, a high time-to-market, and high non-recurring engineering costs. In contrast, by taking the challenge of building a custom FPGA with a small team of researchers, the development of a custom architecture and size focuses on the proof of concept. Results from this baseline methodology can be used for benchmarking against the development of other commonly used architectures, as well as for new FPGA configurations or circuit enhancements.