Multi-Million Gate FPGA Physical Design Challenges

  • Authors:
  • Maogang Wang;Abhishek Ranjan;Salil Raje

  • Affiliations:
  • Cadence Design Systems;Hier Design Inc;Hier Design Inc

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The recent past has seen a tremendous increase in the size ofdesign circuits that can be implemented in a single FPGA. Theselarge design sizes significantly impact cycle time due to designautomation software runtimes and an increased number ofperformance based iterations. New FPGA physical designapproaches need to be utilized to alleviate some of theseproblems. Hierarchical approaches to divide and conquer thedesign, early estimation tools for design exploration, andphysical optimizations are some of the key methodologies thathave to be introduced in the FPGA physical design tools. Thispaper will investigate the loss/benefit in quality of results due tohierarchical approaches and compare and contrast some of thedesign automation problem formulations and solutions neededfor FPGAs versus known standard cell ASIC approaches.