Issue: Rent’s Rule

• What’s the Rent Exponent?

wires = K * gatesp

• How does Xilinx deal with p = 0.5?

  • Xilinx 4000EX architecture
  • Doubles the wires for high density devices

Interconnect

Resources per

CLB

FPGA CLB Capacity

XC3000

XC4000(E)

XC4000EX

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