Statistical analysis and design of HARP FPGAs

Gang Wang; Satish Sivaswamy; Cristinel Ababei; Kia Bazargan; Ryan Kastner; Elaheh Bozorgzadeh

doi:10.1109/TCAD.2005.859485

Statistical analysis and design of HARP FPGAs

Gang Wang, Satish Sivaswamy, Cristinel Ababei, Kia Bazargan, Ryan Kastner, Elaheh Bozorgzadeh

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

Modern field programmable gate array (FPGA) architectures provide ample routing resources so that designs can be routed successfully. The routing architecture is designed to handle versatile connection configurations. However, providing such a great flexibility comes at a high cost in terms of area, delay, and power. The authors propose a new FPGA routing architecture that utilizes a mixture of hardwired and traditional flexible switches. The result is an about a 30% reduction in leakage power consumption, a 5% smaller area, and 20% shorter delays, which translates to a 25% increase in the clock frequency. Despite the increase in clock speeds, the overall power consumption is reduced.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	1677693
Pages (from-to)	2088-2101
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Volume	25
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2005.859485
State	Published - Oct 2006

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Manuscript received April 12, 2005; revised August 2, 2005. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Contract CAREER CCF-0347891. This paper was recommended by Associate Editor C. J. Alpert.

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Architecture
Field programmable gate arrays
Integrated circuits
Routing

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