Increasing Throughput of FPGA-based Streaming Applications : by using Pipelining

The utilization of the used FPGA resources in time is rather low compared to an ASIC due to the lower clock frequency. The efficiency of FPGA resources (lookup tables) can be increased by using designs with many pipeline stages combined with a very high clock frequency. In this work, the automatic insertion of pipeline stages in data paths after synthesis and the usage of high clock frequencies should be investigated. The overall goal is to increase the efficiency and performance of FPGAs. The data paths of critical parts of a design should be analyzed and additional pipeline stages should be automatic inserted.