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Because there is a need for engineering changes to
fix design errors and satisfy design constraints even after
chip fabrication, design flexibility and debuggability
are extremely important to provide reliable designs and
shorten time-to-market. In this paper, we propose a
new VLSI architecture called field modifiable architecture
(FMA) and its design method. Because of the nature of
reprogrammability in FMAs, all of the engineering changes in
designs are resolved at specification-level in terms of code
recompilation. As a result, engineering changes even after
chip fabrication are realized easily without wasting design
time. In the experiment, two examples of engineering
changes are demonstrated to investigate the efficiency
of our proposed method.
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 Additional Information
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Citation:
"Engineering Changes in Field Modifiable Architectures,"
memocode,
p. 87,
First ACM and IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Co-Design (MEMOCODE’03),
2003
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