Paolo Masci

Citation:

Bernardeschi C, Cassano L, Domenici A, Masci P.  2010.  Analysis of FPGAs Using the SAN Formalism. Technical Report, University of Pisa - Department of Information Engineering, copy at www.tinyurl.com/zkj6ley

Abstract:

We describe a model of FPGA based systems realised with the Stochastic Activity Networks (SAN) formalism. The model can be used (i) to debug the FPGA circuit design synthesised from the high level description of the system, and (ii) to calculate the signal probabilities and transition densities of the FPGA circuit design, that can be used for reliability analysis, power consumption estimation and pseudo random testing of digital circuit design. We validate the model by reproducing results presented in other studies for some representative combinatorial circuits, and we explore the applicability of the model in the analysis of real-world devices by studying a circuit for the generation of CRC codes.

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