Fast variational static IR-drop analysis on the graphical processing unit
GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Milpitas, CA, USA
12th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2011
@inproceedings{topaloglu2011fast,
title={Fast variational static IR-drop analysis on the graphical processing unit},
author={Topaloglu, R.O.},
booktitle={Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2011 12th International Symposium on},
pages={1–6},
organization={IEEE},
year={2011}
}
Due to large power grid sizes, IR-drop analysis is a computationally challenging design flow step that is commonly used in integrated circuit design. Variability in silicon and circuit operating conditions makes IR-drop analysis even more challenging. We introduce a flow to take benefit of a graphical processing unit (GPU). We introduce variability for the power grid elements through Monte Carlo runs. We provide a fair speed comparison with respect to CPU implementation. We observe speed savings up to 5.7x using the GPU implementation without architecture-specific programming effort.
June 30, 2011 by hgpu
