Research Article

HotSpot Thermal Floorplan Solver Using Conjugate Gradient to Speed Up

Table 1

The conjugate gradient solver without precondition.

Design nameBlock numberLU solverCG
Run timeSolver timesSolver average timeRun timeRatioSolver average time

xerox105.69266012.14E − 045.321.072.00E − 04
hp117.53294012.56E − 048.880.853.02E − 04
ami3333337.87910013.71E − 03299.521.133.29E − 03
ami49491534.411358011.13E − 02524.652.923.86E − 03
avg25.75471.38707013.87E − 03209.591.491.91E − 03