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Issues of Wirelength Cost Models in Routing-Constrained FPGAs


UWEETR-2004-0006

Author(s):
Ken Eguro and Scott Hauck

Keywords:
reconfigurable computing, FPGA, CAD, placement

Abstract

Contrary to prevailing consumer conceptions of efficient silicon use, previous research efforts have shown that designing routing- poor FPGAs may yield significant area gains. In this paper we show that conventional wirelength-centric placement tools are unable to deal with the challenges that routing-limited CAD problems present. We believe that this problem is present given today's architectures and will become more important as devices scale.

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