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Parallelizing Simulated Annealing-Based Placement Using GPGPU

Alexander Choong, Rami Beidas, Jianwen Zhu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada
International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2010

@conference{choong2010parallelizing,

   title={Parallelizing simulated annealing-based placement using GPGPU},

   author={Choong, A. and Beidas, R. and Zhu, J.},

   booktitle={2010 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications},

   pages={31–34},

   issn={1946-1488},

   year={2010},

   organization={IEEE}

}

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Simulated annealing has became the de facto standard for FPGA placement engines since it provides high quality solutions and is robust under a wide range of objective functions. However, this method will soon become prohibitive due to its sequential nature and since the performance of single-core processor has stagnated. General purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) offers a promising solution to improve runtime with only commodity hardware. In this work, we develop a highly parallel approach to simulated annealing-based placement using GPGPU. We identify the challenges posed by the GPU architecture and describe effective solutions. An average speedup of about 10x was achieved over conventional placement within 3% of wirelength.
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