TY - GEN
T1 - A middle-grain circuit partitioning strategy for 3-D integrated floating-point multipliers
AU - Tada, Jubee
AU - Egawa, Ryusuke
AU - Kawai, Kazushige
AU - Kobayashi, Hiroaki
AU - Goto, Gensuke
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Three-dimensional (3-D) integration technologies have been expected to overcome the limitations of conventional microprocessors, which integrated by two-dimensional (2-D) implementation technologies. This paper focuses on a circuit partitioning strategy for 3-D integrated circuit designs, because it plays important roles to exploit the potential of 3-D integrated circuits. A middle-grain circuit partitioning strategy for 3-D integrated floating-point multipliers is proposed and evaluated in this paper. The proposed strategy equalizes the area of each layer and avoids the critical path to across different layers as much as possible A double-precision 3-D integrated floating-point multiplier which designed by the proposed circuit partitioning strategy achieves 42% delay reduction compared to the 2-D implementation.
AB - Three-dimensional (3-D) integration technologies have been expected to overcome the limitations of conventional microprocessors, which integrated by two-dimensional (2-D) implementation technologies. This paper focuses on a circuit partitioning strategy for 3-D integrated circuit designs, because it plays important roles to exploit the potential of 3-D integrated circuits. A middle-grain circuit partitioning strategy for 3-D integrated floating-point multipliers is proposed and evaluated in this paper. The proposed strategy equalizes the area of each layer and avoids the critical path to across different layers as much as possible A double-precision 3-D integrated floating-point multiplier which designed by the proposed circuit partitioning strategy achieves 42% delay reduction compared to the 2-D implementation.
KW - 3-D integration
KW - TSV
KW - floating-point arithmetic units
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U2 - 10.1109/3DIC.2012.6263031
DO - 10.1109/3DIC.2012.6263031
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866880750
SN - 9781467321891
T3 - 2011 IEEE International 3D Systems Integration Conference, 3DIC 2011
BT - 2011 IEEE International 3D Systems Integration Conference, 3DIC 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE International 3D Systems Integration Conference, 3DIC 2011
Y2 - 31 January 2012 through 2 February 2012
ER -