학술논문
Via-configurable routing architectures and fast design mappability estimation for regular fabrics
Document Type
Conference
Author
Source
ICCAD-2005. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2005. Computer Aided Design Computer-Aided Design, 2005. ICCAD-2005. IEEE/ACM International Conference on. :25-32 2005
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Language
ISSN
1092-3152
1558-2434
1558-2434
Abstract
In this paper, we describe a new via-configurable routing architecture which shows much better throughput and performance than the previous structures. We demonstrate how to construct a single-via-mask fabric to reduce further the mask cost, and we analyze the penalties which it incurs. To solve the routability problem commonly existing in fabric-based designs, an efficient white-space allocation scheme is suggested, which provides a fast design convergence and early prediction of the circuit mappability to a given fabric.