Publications

Updated on May 17, 2011

Here is a list of publications where RapidSmith has played an integral part of the tool development and experiments performed.

VenuePaperDownload PaperDownload CitationDownload Presentation / Poster
FPL 2011C. Lavin, M. Padilla, J. Lamprecht, P. Lundrigan, B. Nelson, and B. Hutchings, "RapidSmith: Do-It-Yourself CAD Tools for Xilinx FPGAs" in Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, Sept. 5-7, 2011.
FCCM 2011C. Lavin, M. Padilla, J. Lamprecht, P. Lundrigan, B. Nelson, and B. Hutchings, "HMFlow: Accelerating FPGA Compilation with Hard Macros for Rapid Prototyping" in 19th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), May 1-3, 2011.
FPT 2010C. Lavin, M. Padilla, P. Lundrigan, B. Nelson, and B. Hutchings, "Rapid Prototyping Tools for FPGA Designs: RapidSmith" in International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, December, 2010.
FPL 2010C. Lavin, M. Padilla, S. Ghosh, B. Nelson, B. Hutchings, and M. Wirthlin, "Using Hard Macros to Reduce FPGA Compilation Time" in Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, August, 2010.

Getting Started With RapidSmith

The best place to start is in our documentation which will help you get RapidSmith up and running on your machine.

Next, check out the examples provided in the examples package to start learning how to write your own FPGA CAD tools.

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