The Price of Routing in FPGAs
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De Dinechin,Florent
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Journal of Universal Computer Science
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Studying the architectural evolution of mainstream field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) leads to the following remark: in these circuits, the proportion of silicon devoted to reconfigurable routing is increasing, reducing the proportion of silicon available for computation resources. A quantitative analysis shows that this trend, if pursued, will lead to a widening gap between FPGA performance and VLSI performance. Some prospective solutions to this problem are discussed.
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FPGA , reconfigurable computing , routing resources , hardware complexity