Eleventh International Conference on VLSI Design: VLSI for Signal Processing
Timing Driven Multi-FPGA Board Partitioning
India
January 04-January 07
ISBN: 0-8186-8224-8
System level design is increasingly turning towards FPGAs to take advantage of their low cost and fast prototyping. In this paper we present a timing driven partitioning approach for an architecturally constrained multi-FPGA system. The partitioning approach uses path-based clustering based on the work by \cite{alpert} and retiming \cite{saxe}. The board-level architecture is based on the PCB model consisting of four Xilinx 4013 FPGAs. The proposed algorithm has been tested on large scale real designs.