Simultaneous logic decomposition with technology mapping in FPGA designs

  • Authors:
  • Gang Chen;Jason Cong

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA;Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

  • Venue:
  • FPGA '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM/SIGDA ninth international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Conventional technology mapping algorithms for SRAM-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are normally carried out on a fixed logic decomposition of a circuit. The impact of logic decomposition on delay and area of the technology mapping solutions is not well understood. In this paper, we present an algorithm named SLDMap that performs delay-minimized technology mapping on a large set of decompositions and simultaneously controls the mapping area under delay constraints. Our study leads to two conclusions: (1) For depth minimization, the best algorithms in conventional flow (dmig + CutMap) produce satisfactory results with a short runtime, even with a fixed decomposition; (2) When all the structural decompositions of the 6-bounded Boolean network are explored, SLDMap consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art separate flow (dmig + CutMap) by 12% in depth and 10% in area on average; it also consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art combined approach dogma by 8% in depth and 6% in area on average.