Title : 
Design of minimum and uniform bipartites for optimum connection blocks of FPGA
         
        
            Author : 
Fujiyoschi, K. ; Kajitani, Yoji ; Niitsu, Hiroshi
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Technol., Japan
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
11/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The design of optimum connection blocks of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA´s) in number and in distribution of switches is formulated as a bipartite graph design problem and solved. A bipartite with vertex sets R and L (|R|⩽|L|) is called totally perfect if there is a perfect matching from Ls to R for any Ls⊂L with |Ls|⩽|R|. The difference of maximum and minimum degrees of the vertices in L or R is called the skew of the respective vertex set. The problem is to construct a minimum totally perfect bipartite graph with the minimum skew. The result shows that a method, biscattering, can construct such a matrix in O(|R|×|L|) time where the lower bound is attained for both skews. This construction also solves the problem of designing optimum direct-concentrators
         
        
            Keywords : 
field programmable gate arrays; graph theory; logic design; FPGA design; bipartite graph design problem; biscattering; field programmable gate arrays; matrix; minimum bipartites; minimum skew; optimum connection blocks; optimum direct-concentrators; uniform bipartites; Agricultural engineering; Agriculture; Bipartite graph; Costs; Field programmable gate arrays; Manufacturing; Pins; Programmable logic arrays; Switches; Telegraphy;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on