WO2010004140A2 - Reseau logique programmable, commutateur d'interconnexion et unite logique pour un tel reseau - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a programmable logic array such as those known by the abbreviation FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), an interconnect switch and a logic unit for such a network.
- FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
- a programmable logic network is an integrated circuit that can be programmed by a device manufacturer integrating such a circuit or by the user to adapt the circuit to the application for which it is intended. Such a programmable logic network can thus replace several integrated circuits specially designed for particular applications (or ASIC circuit, of the English "Application Specifies Integrated Circuit").
- a programmable (or configurable) logic network includes programmable logic blocks and an interconnect matrix structure having nodes formed by programmable interconnect switches. The logic blocks are connected to the interconnect matrix structure by connection units disposed between each pair of adjacent interconnection switches.
- Such an architecture allows the establishment of many information flow paths between two points of the network, these paths being determined by algorithms. It is difficult to predict how long it takes to move information from one point to another. In addition, these circuits occupy a large area and are energy hungry. Such circuits are therefore little or not used when the power source is a battery.
- An object of the invention is to provide a means for obtaining a programmable logic network that is more compact while being flexible relatively powerful, particularly with regard to routing times.
- the subject of the invention is a programmable logic network interconnection switch, comprising input ports grouping a plurality of inputs and output ports grouping a plurality of outputs.
- the output ports include output ports to neighboring interconnect switches and output ports to neighboring logical units, and the input ports include input ports from the neighboring interconnect switches and port ports. input from the neighboring logical units.
- the inputs and outputs are connected to a downlink tree structure from the inputs to the outputs and comprising routing elements organized at several levels to connect:
- interconnection switches allow a large number of connection possibilities and therefore have high flexibility.
- the tree structure and the existence of unique routing paths make it possible to have a good predictability of routing and routing times.
- the routing elements comprise first routing elements arranged between the input ports from the neighboring interconnect switches and the output ports to the neighboring interconnect switches; second routing elements arranged between, on the one hand, the input ports from the logical units and, on the other hand, the first routing elements and the third routing elements, the third routing elements being arranged between, on the one hand, the first routing elements and the second routing elements and, on the other hand, the output ports to the logical units.
- the first routing elements have inputs each connected to an input of each input port from the neighboring interconnection switches, at least one input connected to an output of one of the second routing elements, outputs each connected to an output of each output port to the neighboring interconnect switches and outputs each connected to an input of one of the third routing elements;
- the second routing elements have inputs each connected to one of the inputs of each input port from the logical units and the outputs each connected to the corresponding input of a part of the first routing elements and to one of the inputs of each input port; entries of a portion of the third routing elements;
- the third routing elements have inputs connected to the outputs of the first and second routing elements and the outputs each connected to one of the outputs of each output port to the logical units.
- the subject of the invention is also a programmable logic network logical unit comprising logic blocks connected to four input ports grouping together a plurality of inputs and four output ports grouping a plurality of outputs, the inputs, the outputs and the logic blocks being connected to a link tree structure, going down from the input ports to the logic blocks and setting logical blocks to the output ports, comprising incoming routing elements and outgoing routing elements arranged in several levels, the incoming routing elements connecting by a single path each input of all the input ports to a single input of each logical block and the outgoing routing elements connecting by a single path each output of a logical block to a single output of each output port and to the incoming routing elements of the same group.
- each logical unit has
- L hierarchical levels each comprising at least one group G n grouping together at least:
- Q n groups G n -I belonging to the hierarchical level n-1 each having R n _i inputs and S n _i outputs,
- the invention further relates to a programmable logic network comprising reconfigurable interconnection switches and reconfigurable logical units interconnected by a communication mesh such as:
- each interconnect switch is directly connected to four adjacent interconnect switches, each logical unit has eight neighboring logical units and is connected to each of them by means of an interconnection switch.
- At least one unique path is defined between two points of the network.
- the logical unit can be programmed to communicate directly with the neighboring logical units by passing only through one of the neighboring switches. In this way, it is possible to reduce the length of the paths between two points of the network. This further allows to increase the density of logical units and interconnect switches.
- the network comprises interconnection switches and / or logical units of the above types.
- This structure combines a mailing architecture outside the interconnect switches and a tree structure in the interconnect switches and logical units taking advantage of the advantages of both architectures.
- FIG. 1 is a partial schematic view of a grating according to the invention
- FIG. 2 is an enlarged schematic view of FIG. zone II of FIG.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic detailed view of a configurable logic unit of this network
- FIG. 4 is a schematic detail view of an interconnection switch of this network.
- interconnect switch a routing device arranged at the intersection of several channels and programmable to direct signals from some of the channels to one or more of the other channels, such a routing member may comprise several routing elements as defined below;
- a programmable block of routing for example type "full crossbar" arranged in an interconnect switch or a logic unit for directing and transmitting signals inside the interconnect switch or the logical unit;
- - logical unit a single logical block or a plurality of logical blocks connected by routing elements, a processor or any other element that can be programmed to perform one or more logical operations;
- the programmable logic network is of the FPGA type and includes interconnection switches 2 (commonly referred to as “switch box") reconfigurable (the term “reconfigurable” is used here in the sense of programmable) and reconfigurable logical units 3 interconnected by a communication mesh such that: - each interconnection switch 2 is connected directly to four adjacent 2 interconnection switches,
- each logic unit 3 has eight adjacent logical units 3 and is connected to each of them by means of an interconnection switch 2.
- the interconnection switches 2 situated at the edge of the network are connected to communication devices with the outside of the network.
- Each interconnect switch 2 comprises input ports from the interconnect switches I, output ports to the interconnect switches O, input ports from the logical units I ', output ports to the interconnection switches logical units O '.
- Each interconnection switch 2 thus comprises eight faces or rather interfaces enabling it to be directly connected to the four adjacent interconnection switches 2 and to the four neighboring logical units 3.
- Each input port from the interconnect switches I has M inputs, each output port to the interconnect switches O has M outputs, each input port from the logical drives I 'has N inputs, each output port to logical units O 'has P outputs.
- Each interconnect switch 2 comprises four input ports II, 12, 13, 14 respectively connected to these four neighboring interconnection switches 2 and four output ports 01, 02, 03, 04 respectively connected to these four switching switches. interconnection 2 neighbors.
- the ports I and O may comprise several inputs and outputs respectively, 32 in the present case (all of which have not been shown in the figures so as not to overload the latter), and are arranged on opposite sides of the interconnection switch. 2 which is shown here in octagonal form.
- Each interconnect switch 2 also includes input ports I'I, I '2, I' 3, IM and output ports 0'I, 0'2, O '3, 0'4 connected to the four units logic that surrounds it.
- the ports 0 'and I' may comprise several outputs and several inputs, respectively 4 and 16 in the present case, and are arranged on opposite sides of the interconnection switch 2.
- Each interconnect switch 2 comprises first M-routing elements 4, N-th second routing elements 5 and P-routing third elements 6.
- Each input port I is connected to all the output ports 0 by the programmable routing elements 4.
- the routing elements 4 are here in number 32 distributed in pairs and each have four inputs each connected to one of the inputs of the ports I and four outputs each connected to one of the outputs of the ports 0.
- Each input port I ' is connected to all the output ports 0' by the programmable routing elements 5 connected to the programmable routing elements 6.
- the routing elements 5 are here four in number and have four inputs and four outputs.
- the routing elements 6 are here in number 16, divided into four groups, and have three inputs and four outputs.
- the four inputs of each routing element 5 are each connected to one of the inputs of the input ports I 'and the four outputs of each routing element 5 are each connected, on the one hand, to an input of each of the elements of routing 4 of a pair and, on the other hand, to one of the three inputs of each of the routing elements 6 of an associated group.
- the other two inputs of the routing elements 6 are connected to the output of two routing elements 4 and the outputs of each of the routing elements 6 are each connected to one of the inputs of each output port 0 '.
- Each input port I 1 is connected to all output ports O by routing elements 4 and 5.
- Each input port I is thus also connected to all the output ports 0 'by the routing units 4 and 6.
- the references 400, 500 and 600 shown in FIG. 2 denote all the routing elements 4, 5 and 6 respectively. It will be understood that: the interconnection switches 2 communicate with each other via the routing elements 4 and with the neighboring logic units 3 by the routing elements 4 and 6; the logical units 3 communicate with the neighboring logical units via the routing elements 5 and the routing elements 6 of the neighboring interconnection switches (each of the interconnection switches neighboring a logic unit allows this logic unit to be connected to the other three logical units to which this interconnect switch is connected, without going through another interconnect switch).
- the link tree structure thus defined descends from the inputs to the outputs with the routing elements 4, 5, 6 organized according to several levels to connect: - an input of an input port from a neighboring logic unit I 'to kl outputs an output port to a neighboring logical unit O 'passing through two routing elements 5, 6, where k1 is the ratio of the number of outputs of said output port to the number of inputs of said input port,
- an input of an input port from a neighboring logical unit I 'to k2 outputs from an output port to a neighbor interconnection switch O via two routing elements 4, 5, where k2 is the ratio the number of input port entries from a switch neighboring interconnection on the number of inputs of said input port from a neighboring logical unit.
- Each logical unit 3 comprises logic blocks 7 programmable to perform basic logic functions.
- Each logical unit 3 has a hierarchical structure which has several levels of hierarchy and which results from a duplication of groups.
- the group G 1 of the lowest level, here called first level, comprises Ri inputs and Si outputs with at least: Qi logic blocks 7 each having i inputs and outputs,
- the first level routing set comprises: - i incoming routing elements 8 each connected to all the logical blocks of its first level group and each including yi external inputs of this group,
- outgoing routing elements 9 connected to all the logical blocks 7 of its first-level group and to all the incoming routing elements 8 of this group.
- the second level group G 2 includes x first level groups and a second level routing set.
- the second-level routing set consists in fact of yi routing subsets of the same type as the first-level routing sets and having the same number of inbound and outbound routing elements (the incoming and outgoing routing elements). outgoing from the second-level routing set were numbered 10 and 11).
- the routing set of the second hierarchy level comprises:
- R1 incoming routing elements 10 each connected to one of the first-level incoming routing elements 8 of each first-level group and to one of the input ports, - If outgoing routing elements 11 each connected to one of the first-level outgoing routing elements 9 of each first-level group Gi, to a portion of the second-level incoming routing elements and to one of the output ports.
- the group G thus is comprises n + I n + 1 hierarchy level comprises groups G n of n hierarchical level and a level of routing of all n + 1 which is connected to level routing n sets and com- takes n routing subsets of the same type as the n-level routing sets.
- Logic blocks 7 are here in number of 16 grouped into four groups of first level 4 logical blocks 7 (or clusters) and each have six inputs and two outputs.
- Each top level group includes:
- first-level incoming routing elements 8 having four outputs each connected to an input of all the logical blocks 7 of its first-level group
- two first-level outgoing routing elements 9 having four inputs each connected to the output of each of the logic blocks 7 of its first-level group and three outputs each connected to an input of all the first-level incoming routing elements 8; this group .
- the second-level group incorporates the four first-level groups and the second-level routing set that includes three identical routing subsets to the first-level routing sets, each comprising:
- two second-level outgoing routing elements 11 having four inputs each connected to an output of one of the first-level outgoing routing elements 9 of each first-level group, and three outputs connected, on the one hand, to an input of each of the second-level incoming routing elements of the routing set concerned and, on the other hand, to the input ports I 'of the adjacent interconnection switches 2.
- FIG. 3 thus represents a second level group comprising four first level groups.
- the interconnection switches 2 and the logical units 3 thus have a tree structure according to which it is possible to connect two points of the network by a single path upwards or downwards in the tree structure. This makes it possible to have a good prediction of the routing times.
- the logical unit described includes first-level (or lower-level) groups and a second-level (or higher) group.
- first-level (or lower-level) groups and a second-level (or higher) group.
- n of logic elements which is equal to 16 in the embodiment described can be different and for example equal to 8, 12 or 32 ...
- the network according to the invention is made from interconnect switches and / or logical units of structures different from those described above.
- This architecture can be implemented for embedded (on-board) or dedicated (or stand-alone) FPGA applications.
- interconnection switches which comprise:
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