EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing 
Volume 2003 (2003), Issue 6, Pages 565-579
doi:10.1155/S1110865703301039

Logic Foundry: Rapid Prototyping for FPGA-Based DSP Systems

Gary Spivey,1 Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya,2 and Kazuo Nakajima3,4

 1Rincon Research Corporation, Tucson 85711, AZ, USA
2Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, MD, USA
3Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, MD, USA
4New Architecture Open Lab, NTT Communication Science Labs, Kyoto, Japan
Received 13 March 2002; Revised 9 October 2002

Abstract

We introduce the Logic Foundry, a system for the rapid creation and integration of FPGA-based digital signal processing systems. Recognizing that some of the greatest challenges in creating FPGA-based systems occur in the integration of the various components, we have proposed a system that targets the following four areas of integration: design flow integration, component integration, platform integration, and software integration. Using the Logic Foundry, a system can be easily specified, and then automatically constructed and integrated with system level software.