Achronix Semiconductor Corporation

Shirish Jawale

Kent Orthner

Amit Singh

Michael Riepe

Scott Senst

Kamal Choundhary

Clark Hilbert

Simon Longcroft

Namit Varma

Karl Koehler

A logic block can be relocated without recompilation from a first area to a second area on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) if the pattern of fabric tiles in the second area is the same as the pattern of fabric tiles in the first area, and if the two areas have the same dimensions. The design system runs synthesis, placement, and routing on a partition of a design at a first location, exports that partition to a persistent on-disk database, imports one or multiple copies of the partition into a larger design, and moves one or more of the copies from the first area to a target area in the larger design. The compatibility of the second area may be identified based on fabric tile signatures of the first area and the second area.

Relocatable FPGA modules

An advanced timing mode has a path that originates from a host application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and terminates at a register inside an embedded field programmable gate array (FPGA), bypassing interface cluster registers. The terminating register may be present at a boundary between the host ASIC and the embedded FPGA or deep inside the embedded FPGA. In a clock trunk input with internal divergence timing scenario, a clock output from a phase-locked loop (PLL) in the host ASIC is driven through a clock trunk into the embedded FPGA and, from there, diverges into interface cluster registers and the boundary adjacent to the host ASIC. A clock trunk input with external divergence timing scenario is similar to the internal divergence scenario except that a clock divergence occurs before the clock enters a clock trunk of the embedded FPGA. In a boundary clock input scenario, a PLL drives both the host ASIC and the embedded FPGA interface clusters.

Embedded FPGA timing sign-off

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