Chapter 14. Placement for General-purpose FPGAs
Vaughn BetzAltera Corporation
Placement follows technology mapping in the CAD flow and chooses a location for each block in a circuit. This chapter describes “general-purpose” placement approaches; these techniques can be used with any circuit targeting the commercial field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in widespread use today. After defining the placement problem and optimization goals, the chapter describes the clustering algorithms that are frequently used in conjunction with placement tools. Three different classes of placement algorithms are then detailed: simulated annealing, partition based, and analytic. The chapter concludes with suggestions for further reading and open challenges in FPGA ...
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