Name
Title | ||
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Placement Optimization Based on Global Routing Updating for System Partitioning onto Multi-FPGA Mesh Topologies |
Abstract | ||
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The drive of Multi-FPGA systems has been hindered due to the low gate utilization percentages they present. The scarce inter-FPGA
communication resources turn the circuit partitioning phase into a complex one. The problem is becoming more acute for mesh
routing topologies since the communication between distant FPGAs increases the IO-pin consumption of intermediate FPGAs. For
these topologies the integration of placement and routing phases in the partitioning process may be the natural approach to
take into account all communication constraints. In this research, we have modeled the Multi-FPGA mesh topology as a large
single FPGA where the borders between neighboring FPGAs are represented by a superimposed template. Then, a placement optimization
based on Simulated Annealing is performed to minimize the cut-sizes on this partition template. An initial routing is updated
in each placement iteration to keep account of the actual number of nets crossing between FPGAs. Two different problems, mapping
onto a fixed Multi-FPGA mesh or finding the Multi-FPGA mesh that fits best for a given circuit, can be treated. This second
problem has been solved for a set of benchmark circuits. A large cut-size reduction has been achieved for all circuits being
sufficient to get a high gate utilization percentage in some cases.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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1999 | 10.1007/978-3-540-48302-1_10 | FPL |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
placement optimization,global routing updating,multi-fpga mesh topologies,system partitioning,simulated annealing | Simulated annealing,Mesh networking,Computer science,Computer Aided Design,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Real-time computing,Network topology,Electronic circuit,Partition (number theory),Shared mesh,Distributed computing | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
3-540-66457-2 | 3 | 0.50 |
References | Authors | |
13 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juan de Vicente | 1 | 7 | 1.72 |
| Juan Lanchares | 2 | 171 | 23.30 |
| Román Hermida | 3 | 89 | 15.34 |