Hardware Acceleration of EDA Algorithms: Custom ICs, FPGAs and GPUs - Couverture souple

Khatri, Sunil P P.; Gulati, Kanupriya

 
9781489983336: Hardware Acceleration of EDA Algorithms: Custom ICs, FPGAs and GPUs

Synopsis

Single-threaded software applications have ceased to see signi?cant gains in p- formance on a general-purpose CPU, even with further scaling in very large scale integration (VLSI) technology. This is a signi?cant problem for electronic design automation (EDA) applications, since the design complexity of VLSI integrated circuits (ICs) is continuously growing. In this research monograph, we evaluate custom ICs, ?eld-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and graphics processors as platforms for accelerating EDA algorithms, instead of the general-purpose sing- threaded CPU. We study applications which are used in key time-consuming steps of the VLSI design ?ow. Further, these applications also have different degrees of inherent parallelism in them. We study both control-dominated EDA applications and control plus data parallel EDA applications. We accelerate these applications on these different hardware platforms. We also present an automated approach for accelerating certain uniprocessor applications on a graphics processor. This monograph compares custom ICs, FPGAs, and graphics processing units (GPUs) as potential platforms to accelerate EDA algorithms. It also provides details of the programming model used for interfacing with the GPUs.

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This text covers the acceleration of EDA algorithms using hardware platforms such as FPGAs and GPUs. In it, widely applied CAD algorithms are evaluated and compared for potential acceleration on FPGAs and GPUs.

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9781441909435: Hardware Acceleration of EDA Algorithms

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ISBN 10 :  1441909435 ISBN 13 :  9781441909435
Editeur : Springer, 2010
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