Research Article

Layout Aware Optimization of High Speed Fixed Coefficient FIR Filters for FPGAs

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Multipin net (a) versus two pin net (b) [15]. Placement tools do not treat these two nets the same way causing small fan-out nets having stronger contraction compared to larger fan-out ones which results in the connection to be shorter than connection
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