Research Article

Dynamic Hardware Development

Table 2

Coprocessor module performance benchmarks in an Xilinx xc2vp30.

ModuleAreaSpeedThroughput
(slices/BRAMs/BMults)(MHz)(ops/sec)

Divider (Impulse C)258/0/01343.8 ( )
Divider (OpenCores)159/0/01233.4 ( )
Square root (Impulse C)760/1/9560.7 ( )–4.7 ( )
Square root (CoreGen)266/0/01149.5 ( )