A novel net weighting algorithm for timing-driven placement

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A novel net weighting algorithm for timing-driven placement

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Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design table of contents

San Jose, California

Pages: 172 - 176

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN ~ ISSN:1092-3152 , 0-7803-7607-2

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Tim (Tianming) Kong

Aplus Design Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

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: IEEE Circuits & Systems Society
IEEE-CS\DATC : IEEE Computer Society
SIGDA: ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Net weighting for timing-driven placement has been very popular in industry and academia. It has various advantages such as low complexity, high flexibility and ease of implementation. Existing net weighting algorithms, however, are often ad-hoc. There is generally no known good net weighting algorithms. In this paper, we present a novel net weighting algorithm based on the concept of path-counting, and apply it in timing-driven FPGA placement application. Theoretically this is the first ever known accurate, all-path counting algorithm. Experimental data shows that compared with the weighting algorithm used in state-of-the-art FPGA placement package VPR[1], this new algorithm can achieve the longest path delay reduction of up to 38.8%, 15.6% on average with no runtime overhead and only a 4.1% increase in total wirelength.

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