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Opal Densmore

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0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2012
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Systems, architecture and hardware · 1

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Electronic design automation · 70% Reconfigurable computing and FPGAs · 30%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Reconfigurable computing and FPGAs › FPGA architecture
FPGA architecture exploration
0.112012
The VTR project: architecture and CAD for FPGAs from verilog to routing · FPGA 2012
Electronic design automation
logic synthesis
0.112012
The VTR project: architecture and CAD for FPGAs from verilog to routing · FPGA 2012
Electronic design automation
physical design
0.112012
The VTR project: architecture and CAD for FPGAs from verilog to routing · FPGA 2012
Electronic design automation
high-level synthesis
0.012012
The VTR project: architecture and CAD for FPGAs from verilog to routing · FPGA 2012

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

timing-driven placement and routing · 0.1hard-block synthesis · 0.1
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2012 The VTR project: architecture and CAD for FPGAs from verilog to routing
abstract
To facilitate the development of future FPGA architectures and CAD tools -- both embedded programmable fabrics and pure-play FPGAs -- there is a need for a large scale, publicly available software suite that can synthesize circuits into easily-described hypothetical FPGA architectures. These circuits should be captured at the HDL level, or higher, and pass through logical and physical synthesis. Such a tool must provide detailed modelling of area, performance and energy to enable architecture exploration. As software flows themselves evolve to permit design capture at ever higher levels of abstraction, this downstream full-implementation flow will always be required. This paper describes the current status and new release of an ongoing effort to create such a flow - the 'Verilog to Routing' (VTR) project, which is a broad collaboration of researchers. There are three core tools: ODIN II for Verilog Elaboration and front-end hard-block synthesis, ABC for logic synthesis, and VPR for physical synthesis and analysis. ODIN II now has a simulation capability to help verify that its output is correct, as well as specialized synthesis at the elaboration step for multipliers and memories. ABC is used to optimize the 'soft' logic of the FPGA. The VPR-based packing, placement and routing is now fully timing-driven (the previous release was not) and includes new capability to target complex logic blocks. In addition we have added a set of four large benchmark circuits to a suite of previously-released Verilog HDL circuits. Finally, we illustrate the use of the new flow by using it to help architect a floating-point unit in an FPGA, and contrast it with a prior, much longer effort that was required to do the same thing.
Jonathan Rose, Jason Luu, Chi Wai Yu, Opal Densmore, Jeffrey B. Goeders, Andrew Somerville, Kenneth B. Kent, Peter Jamieson, Jason Helge Anderson
FPGA4