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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
May. 25, 2001
Jason H. Anderson, Campbell, CA (US);
James L. Saunders, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Madabhushi V. R. Chari, Milpitas, CA (US);
Sudip K. Nag, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajeev Jayaraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for placement into a programmable gate array of I/O design objects having different I/O attributes. The I/O attributes of an I/O design object define the electrical characteristics of the design object. The programmable gate array has a plurality of sites (IOBs) arranged into banks supporting a variety of electrical interface characteristics. In an example embodiment, I/O design objects are placed into IOBs of the programmable gate array by first performing simulated annealing that considers conflicts between I/O attributes of I/O design objects as placed into the IOBs. Then, a bipartite matching is performed using placement results from simulated annealing. Finally, if the bipartite matching does not produce a feasible placement, sets of I/O attributes are assigned to the banks based on the previous placement results, and the bipartite matching process is repeated.