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Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'03)
Performance-Directed Retiming for FPGAs Using Post-Placement Delay Information
Munich, Germany
March 03-March 07
ISBN: 0-7695-1870-2
Ulrich Seidl, Technical University of Munich
Klaus Eckl, Synopsys GmbH
Frank Johannes, Technical University of Munich
In today?s deep-submicron designs, the interconnect delays contribute an increasing part to the overall performance of an implementation. Particularly when targeting field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), interconnect delays are crucial, since they can easily vary by orders of magnitude. Many existing performance-directed retiming methods use simple delay models which either neglect routing delays or use inaccurate delay estimations. In this paper, we propose a retiming approach which overcomes the problem of inaccurate delay models. Our retiming technique uses delay information extracted from a fully placed and routed design and takes account of register timing requirements. By applying physical constraints, we ensure that the delay information remains valid during retiming. In our experiments, we achieved up to 27% performance improvement.
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Ulrich Seidl, Klaus Eckl, Frank Johannes, "Performance-Directed Retiming for FPGAs Using Post-Placement Delay Information," date, vol. 1, pp.10770, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'03), 2003
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