Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback
image/svg+xml art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, JakobVoss, and AnonMoos Open Access logo, converted into svg, designed by PLoS. This version with transparent background. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_logo_PLoS_white.svg art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, JakobVoss, and AnonMoos http://www.plos.org/ Electronicsarrow_drop_down
image/svg+xml art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, JakobVoss, and AnonMoos Open Access logo, converted into svg, designed by PLoS. This version with transparent background. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_logo_PLoS_white.svg art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, JakobVoss, and AnonMoos http://www.plos.org/
image/svg+xml art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, JakobVoss, and AnonMoos Open Access logo, converted into svg, designed by PLoS. This version with transparent background. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_logo_PLoS_white.svg art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, JakobVoss, and AnonMoos http://www.plos.org/
Electronics
Article . 2022 . Peer-reviewed
License: CC BY
Data sources: Crossref
versions View all 2 versions
addClaim

Improving Characteristics of LUT-Based Three-Block Mealy FSMs’ Circuits

Authors: Alexander Barkalov; Larysa Titarenko; Kazimierz Krzywicki; Svetlana Saburova;

Improving Characteristics of LUT-Based Three-Block Mealy FSMs’ Circuits

Abstract

One of the very important problems connected with FPGA-based design is reducing the hardware amount in implemented circuits. In this paper, we discuss the implementation of Mealy finite state machines (FSMs) by circuits consisting of look-up tables (LUT). A method is proposed to reduce the LUT count of three-block circuits of Mealy FSMs. The method is based on finding a partition of set of internal states by classes of compatible states. To reduce the LUT count, we propose a special kind of state code, named complex state codes. The complex codes include two parts. The first part includes the binary codes of a state as the element of some partition class. The second part consists of the code of corresponding partition class. Using complex state codes allows obtaining FPGA-based FSM circuits with exactly four logic blocks. If some conditions hold, then any FSM function from the first and second blocks is implemented by a single LUT. The third level is represented as a network of multiplexers. These multiplexers generate either additional variable encoding collections of outputs or input memory functions. The fourth level generates FSM outputs. An example of synthesis and experimental results is shown and discussed. The experiments prove that the proposed approach allows reducing hardware compared to such methods as auto and one-hot of Vivado, JEDI. Further, the proposed approach produces circuits with fewer LUTs than for three-level Mealy FSMs based on joint use of several methods of structural decomposition. The experiments show that our approach allows reducing the LUT counts on average from 11 to 77 percent. As the complexity of an FSM increases, the gain from the application of the proposed method grows; the same is true for both the FSM performance and power consumption.

Keywords

synthesis, complex state codes, LUT count, structural decomposition, Mealy FSM, FPGA

  • BIP!
    Impact byBIP!
    selected citations
    These citations are derived from selected sources.
    This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
    3
    popularity
    This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.
    Top 10%
    influence
    This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
    Average
    impulse
    This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.
    Average
Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback
selected citations
These citations are derived from selected sources.
This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
BIP!Citations provided by BIP!
popularity
This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.
BIP!Popularity provided by BIP!
influence
This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
BIP!Influence provided by BIP!
impulse
This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.
BIP!Impulse provided by BIP!
3
Top 10%
Average
Average
gold