Publications by Hadi Parandeh Afshar

Generalized programmable counter arrays

Philip Brisk, Alessandro Cevrero, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

A Generalized Programmable Counter Array (GPCA) is a reconfigurable multi-operand adder, which can be reprogrammed to sum a plurality of operands of arbitrary size. The GPCA is configured to compress the input words down to two operands using parallel coun ...

2014

Non-LUT field-programmable gate arrays

Paolo Ienne, Grace Zgheib, David Novo Bruna, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

New logic blocks capable of replacing the use of Look-Up Tables (LUTs) in integrated circuits, such as Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the new logic block is a tree structure comprised of a number of levels ...

2014

Closing the Gap between FPGA and ASIC : Balancing Flexibility and Efficiency

Hadi Parandeh Afshar

Despite many advantages of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), they fail to take over the IC design market from Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) for high-volume and even medium-volume applications, as FPGAs come with significant cost in ...

EPFL2012

Compressor Tree Synthesis on Commercial High-Performance FPGAs

Paolo Ienne, Philip Brisk, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

Compressor trees are a class of circuits that generalizes multioperand addition and the partial product reduction trees of parallel multipliers using carry-save arithmetic. Compressor trees naturally occur in many DSP applications, such as FIR filters, and ...

2011

Improving FPGA Performance for Carry-Save Arithmetic

Paolo Ienne, Ajay Kumar Verma, Philip Brisk, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

The selective use of carry-save arithmetic, where appropriate, can accelerate a variety of arithmetic-dominated circuits. Carry-save arithmetic occurs naturally in a variety of DSP applications, and further opportunities to exploit it can be exposed throug ...

2010

Exploiting Fast Carry-Chains Of Fpgas For Designing Compressor Trees

Paolo Ienne, Philip Brisk, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

Fast carry chains featuring dedicated adder circuitry is a distinctive feature of modern FPGAs. The carry chains bypass the general routing network and are embedded in the logic blocks of FPGAs for fast addition. Conventional intuition is that such carry c ...

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Using 3D Integration Technology To Realize Multi-Context Fpgas

Paolo Ienne, Yusuf Leblebici, Maurizio Skerlj, Philip Brisk, Alessandro Cevrero, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

This paper advocates the use of 3D integration technology to stack a DRAM on top of an FPGA. The DRAM will store future FPGA contexts. A configuration is read from the DRAM into a latch array on the DRAM layer while the FPGA executes; the new configuration ...

IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 USA2009

Scalable and Low Cost Design Approach for Variable Block Size Motion Estimation (VBSME)

Paolo Ienne, Philip Brisk, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

Variable block size motion estimation (VBSME) in state-of-the-art video coding standards is one of the key features which improves the coding efficiency significantly compared to the previous standards. VBSME hardware design is a challenging task due to it ...

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Architectural improvements for field programmable counter arrays: enabling efficient synthesis of fast compressor trees on FPGAs

Paolo Ienne, Yusuf Leblebici, Philip Brisk, Alessandro Cevrero, Panagiotis Athanasopoulos, Ajay Kumar Verma, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

The Field Programmable Counter Array (FPCA) was introduced to improve FPGA performance for arithmetic circuits. An FPCA is a reconfigurable IP core that can be integrated into an FPGA. To exploit the FPCA, a circuit is transformed by merging disparate addi ...

ACM2008

A Novel FPGA Logic Block for Improved Arithmetic Performance

Philip Brisk, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

To improve FPGA performance for arithmetic circuits, this paper proposes a new architecture for FPGA logic cells that includes a 6:2 compressor. The new cell features additional fast carry-chains that concatenate adjacent compressors and can be routed loca ...

Acm Order Department, P O Box 64145, Baltimore, Md 21264 Usa2008