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Architecture Evaluation Method

This section describes how we investigate the effect of varying the amount of flexibility in the memory/logic interconnect structure, tex2html_wrap_inline363 . The general approach is to map, place and route benchmark circuits on FPGAs with different architectural parameters. We measure the effect on routing demand (the number of tracks needed to route, W) and the speed of the resulting circuits. The following subsections describe the development of appropriate benchmark circuits, and the implementation procedure.





Steve Wilton
Thu Aug 1 15:28:50 EDT 1996