EVE: A CAD Tool Providing Placement and Pipelining Assistance for High-Speed FPGA Circuit Designs

Conclusion

•Proposed a high-speed manual circuit design methodology

•Created a manual editor

–Targets real designs: Xilinx Virtex-E

–Focus on pipelining, placement, packing

–Full low-level control

–Instant exact timing feedback

•Results: speed increased up to +19%, avg +12.7% for 8 ccts

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