Technology Mapping for FPGAs with Composite Logic Block Architectures

Hsien-Ho CHUANG  C. Bernard SHUNG  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E79-D   No.10   pp.1396-1404
Publication Date: 1996/10/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Synthesis and Verification of Hardware Design)
Category: Logic Synthesis
Keyword: 
technology mapping,  FPGA,  subject graph,  pattern graph,  

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Summary: 
A new technology mapping algorithm is developed on a general model of FPGA with composite logic block architectures, consisting of different sizes of look-up tables (LUTs) and possibly different logic gates. In additions, the logic blocks may have hard-wired connections and limit accessible fanouts. Xilinx XC4000 is one example containing LUTs of different sizes and AT&T ORCA is another example containing both LUTs and logic gates. We use a multiple-fanout pattern graph library to model the composite logic block and a premapping technique to generate the subject graph dynamically. A new matching algorithm and a new covering algorithm are also developed for the subject graph covering. The experimental results show that our algorithm is an effective technology mapper for FPGAs with composite logic block architectures, especially for larger circuits. Over a set of MCNC benchmarks, our algorithm requires on the average 4.25% fewer CLBs than PPR, 6.79% fewer CLBs than TEMPT, and 2,79% fewer CLBs than ASYL when used as the XC4000 mapper. Over a set of larger benchmarks, our algorithm outperforms PPR by 13.70%. Very encouraging results were obtained when our algorithm is used as an ORCA mapper, while there was no prior published results.