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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2008
Ian D. Miller, Charlotte, NC (US);
Jorn W. Janneck, San Jose, CA (US);
David B. Parlour, Fox Chapel, PA (US);
Paul R. Schumacher, Berthoud, CO (US);
Ian D. Miller, Charlotte, NC (US);
Jorn W. Janneck, San Jose, CA (US);
David B. Parlour, Fox Chapel, PA (US);
Paul R. Schumacher, Berthoud, CO (US);
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosure is made of approaches for mapping an electronic design specification to an implementation. In one approach, quality metrics are associated with functional units of the design, and the functional units are mapped to respective initial implementations. For each functional unit a respective quality indicator is determined based on the mapping. The quality indicator specifies a degree to which the functional unit achieves the associated quality metric. At least one of the functional units is selected for remapping based on the quality indicator of that functional unit or the quality indicator of another functional unit. An alternative implementation to the initial implementation is selected for each selected functional unit to improve the quality indicator. The selected functional unit is remapped to the selected alternative implementation.