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EE244: Design Technology for Integrated Circuits and Systems Outline Lecture 9.2
Role of VHDL
Languages versus Models: A Software Analogy
An Alternate View of Synthesis
An Alternate View of Synthesis
An Alternate View of Synthesis
An Alternate View of Synthesis
An Alternate View of Synthesis
Two Approaches to Combinational and Sequential Optimization
An Alternate View of Synthesis: Implications
Abstract Datatype Approach to Consistency: A Software Analogy
Simulated Annealing with Learning
High-Level Goals
PPT Slide
Rationality
Data Engineering
Our Proposal: Stochastic Optimizer with Learning
Overall Flow of Experiment
Selecting a Candidate Move
Parameters in the Model
Cost Estimate vs. TimberWolf Chip Area
Examples Used for Placement
Results for Trained Placement
Three Approaches
Performance of Trained Model: Apex6
Percentage Improvement for Placement
Variation of Parameter Model Weights with Temperature Zone
Netlist Partitioning
Examples for Partitioning
Examples for Partitioning
Netlist Partitioning
Dutt and Deng’s PROP
FM Algorithm
Changes in Cost During FM
Changes in Cost During FM
Note on Experimental Evaluation
Stochastic FM
Stochastic FM: Block Diagram
Experimental Results
Comparison: FM vs HP-FM vs S-FM
Comparison: Best-of-N FM vs long S-FM
Multiple Passes of FM
Visualizing Typical Passes
Cutoff Best-of-N FM
Cutoff Best-of-N FM
Best-of-N FM vs Cutoff Best-of-20
Cutoff Stochastic FM or DT-FM
DT-FM vs Best-of-N FM and PROP
Summary
Stochastic Optimization with Learning for Complex Problems
Summary
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