Technology mapping of FSM oriented to LUT-based FPGA

Abstract

The main purpose of the paper is to present technology mapping ofFSM(finite state machine) oriented to LUT (look-up table)-based FPGA (field-programmable gate array). The combinational part of an automaton, which consists of a transition block and an output block, was mapped in LUT-based logic blocks. In the paper, the idea of carrying out the combinational part of FSM was presented and leads to the reduction of the number of LUTs needed to carry out an automaton. The essence of this method is a simultaneous synthesis of the whole combinational block described in the form of multi-output function. The proposed idea makes it possible to conduct decomposition that may enable to share logic blocks, which can lead to the reduction of using resources of FPGA. The decomposition process was conducted using the analyzed DECOMP system. The effectiveness of the proposed idea of the FSM description was also confirmed by conducting decomposition with the usage of the ABC system. The obtained results prove the efficiency of the proposed synthesis method of FSM in comparison with the separate synthesis of a transition block and an output block.