Enhancing Productivity with Back-End Similarity Matching of Digital Circuits for IP Reuse

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dc.contributor.authorZeng, Kevinen
dc.contributor.committeechairAthanas, Peter M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberPatterson, Cameron D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberSchaumont, Patrick R.en
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-05T08:00:38Zen
dc.date.available2013-06-05T08:00:38Zen
dc.date.issued2013-06-04en
dc.description.abstractProductivity for digital circuit design is being outpaced currently by the rate at which<br />silicon is growing such as FPGAs. Complex designs take a large amount of engineering<br />hours to complete. Reuse of existing design can potentially decrease this cost and increase<br />design productivity. However, existing digital hardware designs are not being effectively<br />reused by the hardware community due to the inability of designers to have knowledge of<br />all the attributes of designs that can be reused. In addition, designers will have to accustom<br />themselves to designs in the hardware library. By having a back-end system that looks for<br />similar circuits, there is little to no effort for the designer to reuse the design. This thesis<br />provides an overview and comparison of different methods for characterizing and comparing<br />digital circuits in order to suggest candidate circuits that engineers can reuse. Several of<br />these methods are implemented, modified, and compared to show the feasibility of utilizing<br />this work for increasing overall productivity.<br />en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:1244en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/23144en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectField programmable gate arraysen
dc.subjectProductivityen
dc.subjectDigital Circuitsen
dc.subjectGraph Matchingen
dc.subjectSimilarityen
dc.subjectIP Reuseen
dc.titleEnhancing Productivity with Back-End Similarity Matching of Digital Circuits for IP Reuseen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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