Title
Architecture level optimization of 3-dimensional tree-based FPGA.
Abstract
We describe a methodology to design and optimize Three-dimensional (3D) Tree-based FPGA by introducing a break-point at particular tree level interconnect to optimize the speed, area, and power consumption. The ability of the design flow to decide a horizontal or vertical network break-point based on design specifications is a defining feature of our design methodology. The vertical partitioning is organized in such a way to balance the placement of logic blocks and switch blocks into multiple tiers while the horizontal partitioning optimizes the interconnect delay by segregating the logic blocks and programmable interconnect resources into multiple tiers to build a 3D stacked Tree-based FPGA. We finally evaluate the effect of Look-Up-Table (LUT) size, cluster size, speed, area and power consumption of the proposed 3D Tree-based FPGA using our home grown experimental flow and show that the horizontal partitioned 3D stacked Tree-based FPGA with LUT and cluster sizes equal to 4 has the best area-delay product to design and manufacture 3D Tree-based FPGA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.mejo.2013.12.011
Microelectronics Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
3D Integration,Tree-based FPGA,Placement,Partitioning,Routing,Butterfly-fat-tree
Lookup table,Architecture,Horizontal and vertical,Computer science,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Design flow,Design methods,Interconnection,Power consumption
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
45
4
0026-2692
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vinod Pangracious1418.11
Emna Amouri2397.83
Zied Marrakchi315228.68
Habib Mehrez420039.21