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A Case for Heterogeneous Technology-Mapping: Soft versus Hard Multiplexers

Purnaprajna, Madhura  
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Ienne, Paolo  
2013
2013 Ieee 21St Annual International Symposium On Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (Fccm)
21st Annual International IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)

Lookup table-based FPGAs offer flexibility but compromise on performance, as compared to custom CMOS implementations. This paper explores the idea of minimising this performance gap by using fixed, fine-grained, non-programmable logic structures in place of lookup tables (LUTs). Functions previously mapped onto LUTs can now be diverted to these structures, resulting in reduced LUT usage and higher operating speed. This paper presents a generic heterogeneous technology-mapping scheme for segregating LUTs and hard logic blocks. For the proof-of-concept, we choose to isolate multiplexers present in most general-purpose circuits. These multiplexers are mapped onto hard blocks of multiplexers that are present in existing commercial FPGA fabrics, but often unused. Since the hard multiplexers are already present, there is no additional performance or area penalty. Using this approach, an average reduction in LUT usage of 16% and an average speedup of 8% has been observed for the VTR benchmarks as compared to the LUTs-only implementation.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/Fccm.2013.19
Web of Science ID

WOS:000326442500009

Author(s)
Purnaprajna, Madhura  
•
Ienne, Paolo  
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Ieee

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2013 Ieee 21St Annual International Symposium On Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (Fccm)
ISBN of the book

978-0-7695-4969-9

Total of pages

4

Start page

53

End page

56

Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LAP  
Event name
21st Annual International IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)
Available on Infoscience
December 9, 2013
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/97518
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