The switch-block architecture of FPGAs is discussed to see a good balance between programmable-switch resources and routability. For the purpose, FPGAs are assumed to have certain extremal structures, whose switch-blocks consist of parallel or complete switch-sets where a switch-set is a set of switches between two sides of the switch-block. A polynomial time detailed-routing algorithm for a given global-routing is presented if the switch-block consists of two or less parallel switch-sets or three that form a cycle. For other FPGAs, the corresponding decision problem is proved to be
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Yasuhiro TAKASHIMA, Atsushi TAKAHASHI, Yoji KAJITANI, "Routability of FPGAs with Extremal Switch-Block Structures" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals,
vol. E81-A, no. 5, pp. 850-856, May 1998, doi: .
Abstract: The switch-block architecture of FPGAs is discussed to see a good balance between programmable-switch resources and routability. For the purpose, FPGAs are assumed to have certain extremal structures, whose switch-blocks consist of parallel or complete switch-sets where a switch-set is a set of switches between two sides of the switch-block. A polynomial time detailed-routing algorithm for a given global-routing is presented if the switch-block consists of two or less parallel switch-sets or three that form a cycle. For other FPGAs, the corresponding decision problem is proved to be
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