Title
Floorplanning with datapath optimization
Abstract
This paper presents a jfloorplanner for datapath with the capability of re-allocating data storage for minimizing the interconnect area and critical path delay without altering the number of Functional units and the schedule. The tool has combined two novel approaches: 1 -A placement & Routing model to handle different architectural topologies (mux. and/ or bus based) suitable for FPGA's. 2 - An efJicient formulation for the biruling of register/lnterconnect & combined Floorplanning. The complexity of the architectural and jloorplanning model, and of the cost finction, have led us to the use of a stochastic optimization process. The running time of the whole process indicates the viability of the method. We show through various examples how the jloorplmner improves the area and critical path delay of the datapath compared to a plainjloorplannel: The improvement is about 20% for the critical path delay when this objective is a stringent constraint.
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1109/ISCAS.1995.521446
Circuits and Systems, 1995. ISCAS '95., 1995 IEEE International Symposium
Keywords
Field
DocType
VLSI,circuit layout CAD,circuit optimisation,field programmable gate arrays,integrated circuit layout,logic CAD,network routing,FPGA,cost function,critical path delay,data storage reallocation,datapath optimization,floorplanner,interconnect area,placement/routing model,stochastic optimization process
Integrated circuit layout,Datapath,Stochastic optimization,Computer science,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Multiplexer,Electronic engineering,Network topology,Very-large-scale integration,Floorplan
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1
0277-674X
0-7803-2570-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abdelhakim Safir100.34
Baher Haroun2349.20
Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman325525.49