Enhancing timing-driven FPGA placement for pipelined netlists

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作者
Eguro, Ken [1 ]
Hauck, Scott [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Dept Elect Engn, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
来源
2008 45TH ACM/IEEE DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE, VOLS 1 AND 2 | 2008年
关键词
FPGA; placement; simulated annealing; timing-driven; pipelined;
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TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
FPGA application developers often use pipelining, C-slowing and retiming to improve the performance of their designs. Unfortunately, registered netlists present a fundamentally different problem to CAD tools, potentially limiting the benefit of these techniques. In this paper we discuss some of the inherent issues pipelined netlists pose to existing timing-driven placement approaches. We then present two algorithmic modifications that reduce post-routing critical path delay by an average of 40%.
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页码:34 / 37
页数:4
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