iDEA : a DSP block based FPGA soft processor

• Main Authors: Cheah, Hui Yan, Fahmy, Suhaib A., Maskell, Douglas L.
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99366; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16290
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presents a very lean DSP Extension Architecture (iDEA) soft processor for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). iDEA has been built to be as lightweight as possible, utilising the run-time flexibility of the DSP48E1 primitive in Xilinx FPGAs to serve as many processor functions as possi...