R2D2 team

R2D2 teamReconfigurable and Retargetable Digital Devices

Application domains• Mobile telecommunications

WCDMA/UMTS (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) techniques

• High speed and secure network Trafic filtering (intrusion detection system) Cryptography

• Image indexing

ASIC Processor Memory

ReconfigurableFPGA

ReconfigurableDART

DSP

Goal: search for the best compromise between high-performance, power consumption and flexibility using reconfigurable hardware

R2D2 team

R2D2 research fields (1)

Compilation, synthesis targeting reconfigurable architectures• High-level synthesis from high-level specifications

Compilation of loop nests to parallel circuits (MMAlpha)High-level synthesis of control dominated specifications using

Hierarchical Conditional Dependency Graphs (CODESIS)High-level synthesis from behavioural VHDL (BSS)Specialized microcontroller synthesis on FPGA

• Retargetable compilation and processor core modellingProcessor modelling (Armor language)Flexible compilation for ASIP (CALIFE)

• Floating point to fixed-point conversion methodology targeting software (DSP) and hardware (FPGA)

R2D2 team

R2D2 research fields (2)

New architectures and technologies• Coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture (DART

reconfigurable data path)• Memory hierarchy in specialized System-on-Chip• Reconfigurable architectures for control intensive applications• Network on chip (NOC) design using advanced mobile

telecommunication techniques• Wireless sensor networks (energy efficiency optimisation)• Multiple-valued logic (MVL) architectures and circuits

Prototyping of applications on reconfigurable platforms • 3G and 4G mobile application prototyping

WCDMA on the Lyrtech DSP/FPGA platform MIMO