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Graphics Processing Unit-Based Computer-Aided Design Algorithms For Electronic Design Automation, Yiding Han
Graphics Processing Unit-Based Computer-Aided Design Algorithms For Electronic Design Automation, Yiding Han
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The electronic design automation (EDA) tools are a specific set of software that play important roles in modern integrated circuit (IC) design. These software automate the design processes of IC with various stages. Among these stages, two important EDA design tools are the focus of this research: floorplanning and global routing. Specifically, the goal of this study is to parallelize these two tools such that their execution time can be significantly shortened on modern multi-core and graphics processing unit (GPU) architectures. The GPU hardware is a massively parallel architecture, enabling thousands of independent threads to execute concurrently. Although a small …