On improved scheme for digital circuit rewiring and application on further improving FPGA technology mapping

The digital circuit rewiring technique has been shown to be one of the most powerful logic transformation methods being able to further improve some already excellent results on many EDA problems. In this work a new hybrid rewiring approach that can enjoy advantages from both ATPG-based and graph-based rewiring is proposed. Our hybrid approach utilizes structural characteristics and ATPG technique to perform quick alternative wires identification inside circuits. Experimental results suggest that our hybrid engine is able to achieve about 50% of alternative wires coverage when compared with ATPG-based rewiring engine with 4% of runtime only. For some problems only requiring a good-enough and very quick solution, this new rewiring technique may serve as a useful alternative.