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A project log for Recursive Range Reduction (3R) HW&SW CODEC

A high speed circuit design in JS and VHDL for decoding 3R bitstreams, a "quasi-entropy" code that compacts series of correlated numbers.

yann-guidon-ygdesYann Guidon / YGDES 09/01/2015 at 13:230 Comments

Thanks to extensive simulations with GHDL, the VHDL source code synthesised "out of the box" and effortlessly reached 110MHz on the venerable ProASIC3 FPGA family. One SRAM block and about 450 tiles (LUT3) are used.

The SmartFusion2 has a different structure and also provides smaller, faster SRAM blocks. Only 120 LUT4 are used but I thought I'd reach more than the announced 147MHz... I'm believe I might shave a nanosecond or two if I read the doc well.

I still have to try with Xilinx (S3E, Artix) and Lattice (MachXO2 and ICE40) but I have no experience with them... That might be a good opportunity to try Antti's toys ;-)

Here is a screenshot of the P&R's map for the SmartFusion2 target.

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