Problem Set 2

Due: October 6, 2016

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Several references to help you complete the homework:

Vaughn Betz and Jonathan Rose, VPR: A New Packing, Placement, and Routing Tool for FPGA Research, in Proceedings, Field-Programmable Logic, Oxford, U.K. , 1997. pdf,

Scott Hauck and Anant Agarwal, Software Technologies for Reconfigurable Systems , Submitted to IEEE Computer , 1997. pdf,

Jordan Swartz, Vaughn Betz and Jonathan Rose, A Fast Routability-Driven Router for FPGAs , in 6th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays , 1998. pdf,

Russell Tessier, Negotiated A* Routing for FPGAs, , in 5th Canadian Workshop on Field-Programmable Devices, , 1998. pdf,

Russell Tessier, Fast Place and Route Approaches for FPGAs, , Ph.D, thesis, MIT Department of EECS , February 1999. chapter 4. pdf,