id: 06089991
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an: 06089991
au: Vipin, Kizheppatt; Fahmy, Suhaib A.
ti: Architecture-aware reconfiguration-centric floorplanning for partial
    reconfiguration.
so: Choy, Oliver C. S. (ed.) et al., Reconfigurable computing: Architectures,
    tools and applications. 8th international symposium, ARC 2012, Hong
    Kong, China, March 19‒23, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN
    978-3-642-28364-2/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7199, 13-25
    (2012).
py: 2012
pu: Berlin: Springer
la: EN
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li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28365-9_2
ab: Summary: Partial reconfiguration (PR) has enabled the adoption of FPGAs in
    state of the art adaptive applications. Current PR tools require the
    designer to perform manual floorplanning, which requires knowledge of
    the physical architecture of FPGAs and an understanding of how to
    floorplan for optimal performance and area. This has lead to PR
    remaining a specialist skill and made it less attractive to high level
    system designers. In this paper we introduce a technique which can be
    incorporated into the existing tool flow that overcomes the need for
    manual floorplanning for PR designs. It takes into account overheads
    generated due to PR as well as the architecture of the latest FPGAs.
    This results in a floorplan that is efficient for PR systems, where
    reconfiguration time and area should be minimised.
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