An efficient chip-level time slack allocation algorithm for Dual-Vdd FPGA power reduction

  • Authors:
  • Yan Lin;Yu Hu;Lei He;Vijay Raghunat

  • Affiliations:
  • UCLA, Los Angeles, CA;UCLA, Los Angeles, CA;UCLA, Los Angeles, CA;Purdue University, La Fayette, IN

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

To reduce FPGA power, a linear programming (LP) based time slack allocation algorithm, EdTLC-LP, has been proposed recently for Vdd-programmable interconnects without using Vdd-level converters for mixed wire lengths. However, it takes a long time to solve the LP problem for time slack allocation. In this paper, we develop EdTLC-NW, a slack allocation algorithm based on min-cost network flow to reduce runtime. Compared to single Vdd FPGA with power-gating, EdTLC-LP and EdTLC-NW reduce interconnect power by 52.71% and 52.52%, respectively. EdTLC-NW achieves as good results as EdTLC-LP but runs 8X faster on average. Furthermore, the speedup increases for larger circuits and EdTLC-NW is 20X faster for the largest circuit.