Architecture and CAD for Deep-Submicron FPGAs
Architecture and CAD for Deep-Submicron FPGAs
Exploring regular fabrics to optimize the performance-cost trade-off
Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference
Structured ASICs: Opportunities and Challenges
ICCD '03 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Design
Exploring Logic Block Granularity for Regular Fabrics
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
Routing architecture exploration for regular fabrics
Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference
Capo: robust and scalable open-source min-cut floorplacer
Proceedings of the 2005 international symposium on Physical design
Via-configurable routing architectures and fast design mappability estimation for regular fabrics
ICCAD '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Via-configurable routing architectures and fast design mappability estimation for regular fabrics
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
High-performance routing at the nanometer scale
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Measuring the Gap Between FPGAs and ASICs
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
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In this paper, we evaluate the performance of an FPGA-like interconnect fabric for structured ASICs which is based upon fixed metal and programmable vias. We call this type of device a via-programmed structured ASIC or VPSA. We look at two different types of VPSA routing fabrics: one uses jumper wiring and the other uses crossover wiring. The performance of these fabrics is compared against an ASIC-like interconnect fabric, otherwise known as a metal-programmed structured ASIC or MPSA, which can be configured by customizing metal and via layers. We study the impact of these routing fabrics on cost, area, power and delay metrics. The results for different fabrics span a wide range, suggesting the routing architecture plays a very important role in their overall performance and it should be thoroughly researched.