Reducing the bitstream size is important to lower external storage requirements and to speed-up the reconfiguration of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The most common methods for bitstream size reduction are based on dedicated hardware elements or dynamic partial reconfiguration.
In this paper we propose a lightweight compaction approach for iCE40 FPGAs. We present five methods for bitstream compaction: two adapted and three new. The ...
Aug 11, 2022 · This paper introduces methods to reduce the bitstream size and the reconfiguration time for low-cost Lattice iCE40. FPGAs. They require neither ...
This paper introduces methods to reduce the bitstream size and the reconfiguration time for low-cost Lattice iCE40. FPGAs. They require neither the repetition ...
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The HDF5 file contains data from an experiment concerning bitstream size reduction for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs. Five projects were synthesized with two ...
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Author:Joern Hoffmann. Publications. Reduction of Bitstream Size for Low-Cost iCE40 FPGAs · Clemens Fritzsch, Joern Hoffmann and Martin Bogdan.
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The use of specialized tools allows further optimizations like compaction of the bitstream. It is a viable and often the only way to reduce the bitstream size ...
In this paper, we present hardware decompression accelerators for bridging the gap between high speed FPGA configuration interfaces and slow configuration ...
TL;DR: This paper proposes a lightweight compaction approach for iCE40 FPGAs that works directly on the bitstream by removing unnecessary data and redundant ...