I would avoid hardcoding the case for biplex FFTs, if you can avoid it. It's a much better solution to get the general reorder block to work. The pink blocks did use espresso to do the logic reduction in reorder blocks, and that resulted in slow simulation. Once it was determined that ROMs used logic reduction in their implementation, we migrated to those. I must say I'm *very* surprised that ROMs no longer do this optimization. This may be worth calling Xilinx about. It may be that there is some flag that is disabling this reduction. Logic optimization is kind of the whole point of ROMs...
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Henry Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Glenn, > > I'm actually in the process of doing this partway for the biplex > unscramblers. For large FFTs, the arbitrary reorders consume an > insanely huge number of resources trying to get the mapping ROM. > > Since the biplex unscramble reorders use a known and easily-described > reorder, I was just going to hardcode them for this special case. > The thing about the pink block reorders, though, was it that it > depended on espresso, which I think we were trying to avoid using > for one reason or another. > > Let me know if you want me to wait so we standardize on yours, or > if you want me to just proceed with mine, and then we can converge > in the future. > > Thanks, > Henry > > G Jones wrote: >> >> For anyone who's interested, I've begun porting the map function used in >> the pink reorder blocks to 10.1. For complex reorderings, the green block >> seems to be inefficient since it implements the map using ROM rather than >> logic as was done in the pink blocks. Ideally, the synthesis tool would >> automatically apply logic reduction to the ROM and the two would be >> equivalent in implementation, but this does not seem to be the case. I plan >> to add an option to the 10.1 FFT block to use either the logic based or ROM >> based map, but in case I get side tracked, I wanted to share what I've done >> so far. It is not yet tested. The code is here: >> http://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/caltech/lib10.1/map_init.m >> >> Glenn > > -- Aaron Parsons 510-406-4322 (cell) 787-878-2612 x329 (arecibo office) 787-721-3991 (home)
