Correlation-guided Placement for Nonvolatile FPGAs

Nonvolatile FPGAs have advantages of high density and near-zero leakage power compared with traditional SRAM-based FPGAs. However, they have lifetime issue. To deal with this problem, a series of configuration files can be generated with various logical-to-physical mappings so that intensive writes...

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Published in2023 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Zhao, Mengying, Xu, Fanjin, Zheng, Huichuan, Zhang, Hao, Xiong, Yuqing, Jia, Zhiping, Cai, Xiaojun
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 09.07.2023
Subjects
Correlation
Design automation
Field programmable gate arrays
Simulated annealing
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DOI10.1109/DAC56929.2023.10247963

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Summary:Nonvolatile FPGAs have advantages of high density and near-zero leakage power compared with traditional SRAM-based FPGAs. However, they have lifetime issue. To deal with this problem, a series of configuration files can be generated with various logical-to-physical mappings so that intensive writes can be distributed to different physical regions for wear leveling. Currently, the configuration files are independently generated, which is time-consuming. In this paper, we propose to investigate correlations between components and use them to guide the computer-aided design (CAD) flow to speed up the procedure of deriving configuration files. Specifically, we develop dynamic probabilities to drive the swapping of placement step in the CAD flow to push components to locate appropriate positions quickly. Evaluation shows that the proposed schemes can deliver 36.32% reduction in number of swappings when compared with existing strategies, while maintaining comparable performance and lifetime.
DOI:10.1109/DAC56929.2023.10247963