A New Floorplanning Method for FPGA Architectural Research

  • Authors:
  • Frank Wolz;Reiner Kolla

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FPL '00 Proceedings of the The Roadmap to Reconfigurable Computing, 10th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new approach for solving discrete floorplanning problems. Using an abstract architecture model, our method is suitable especially for FPGA architectural research: Modules to be placed and the target architecture are modeled by periodic graphs. The objective is, to find a valid assignment of module nodes to slot nodes of the target architecture, such that a cost function on the placement will be minimized. We use an algorithm which is abstracted and derived from a traditional pattern matching technique.