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With the XC6200 FPGA Xilinx introduced the first commercially available FPGA designed for reconfigurable computing. It has a completely new internal architecture, so new design algorithms and software is needed. Due to the fact that most applications are in the research area, the number of sold units seems to be small. Because of this progress of design tools for this architecture is rather low. This paper discusses the problems, which appear during designing for the XC6200 FPGAs. A dedicated design flow is presented and demonstrated on an example application.
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Hartenstein, R.W., Herz, M., Gilbert, F. (1998). Designing for Xilinx XC6200 FPGAs. In: Hartenstein, R.W., Keevallik, A. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic and Applications From FPGAs to Computing Paradigm. FPL 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1482. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055230
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