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A Placement Algorithm for FPGA Designs with Multiple I/O Standards

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A Placement Algorithm for FPGA Designs with Multiple I/O Standards
State-of-the-art FPGAs possess I/O resources that can be configured to support a wide variety of I/O standards [1]. In such devices, the I/O resources are grouped into banks. One of the consequences of the banked organization is that all of the I/O objects that are placed within a bank must use ,,compatible" I/O standards. The compatibility of I/O standards is based on each standard's supply and reference voltage requirements. For designs that use more than one I/O standard, the constraints associated with the banked organization lead to a constrained I/O pad placement problem. Meeting these constraints with a minimal deleterious effect on traditional objectives like minimizing wirelength turns out to be quite challenging. In this paper, we present a placement algorithm that operates in the context of these constraints. Our approach uses a combination of simulated annealing, weighted bipartite matching and constructive packing to produce a feasible I/O placement. Results show...
Jason Helge Anderson, Jim Saunders, Sudip Nag, Cha
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Type Conference
Year 2000
Where FPL
Authors Jason Helge Anderson, Jim Saunders, Sudip Nag, Chari Madabhushi, Rajeev Jayaraman
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