IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms
Iterative Synthesis Methods Estimating Programmable-Wire Congestion in a Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor
Takao TOITakumi OKAMOTOToru AWASHIMAKazutoshi WAKABAYASHIHideharu AMANO
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2011 Volume E94.A Issue 12 Pages 2619-2627

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Iterative synthesis methods for making aware of wire congestion are proposed for a multi-context dynamically reconfigurable processor (DRP) with a large number of processing elements (PEs) and programmable-wire connections. Although complex data-paths can be synthesized using the programmable-wire, its delay is long especially when wire connections are congested. We propose two iterative synthesis techniques between a high-level synthesizer (HLS) and the place & route tool to shorten the prolonged wire delay. First, we feed back wire delays for each context to a scheduler in the HLS. The experimental results showed that a critical-path delay was shorten by 21% on average for applications with timing closure problems. Second, we skip the routing and estimate wire delays based on the congestion. The synthesis time was shorten to 1/3 causing delay improvement rate degradation at two points on average.

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