GPU Approach to FPGA placement based on star+
While simulated-annealing is currently the most widely used method for performing FPGA placement, it does not scale to very large designs. Modern many-core architectures (including GPUs) offer a promising alternative to traditional multi-core processors for improving runtime performance. In this work, we propose a GPU-accelerated simulated-annealing variant for FPGA placement. Our approach uses the Star+ wirelength model along with a novel method of efficiently generating large sets of independent swap operations, providing a high level of parallelism. Speedups from 5.4-89.2× (median 20.2×) were achieved over a single-core CPU-only implementation.
C. Fobel, G. Grewal, R. Collier and D. Stacey. GPU Approach to FPGA placement based on star+ . New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), 2012 IEEE 10th International. [doi: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6328998]
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