Preliminary Study on the Impact of Place and Route Strategy on FPGA Electromagnetic Emission

Estevan L. Lara; Allan A. Constante; Juliano Benfica; Fabian Vargas; Alexandre Boyer; Sonia B. Dhia; Andreas Gleinser; Gunter Winkler; Bernd Deutschmann

doi:10.1109/CAE51562.2021.9397567

Preliminary Study on the Impact of Place and Route Strategy on FPGA Electromagnetic Emission

Estevan L. Lara, Allan A. Constante, Juliano Benfica, Fabian Vargas, Alexandre Boyer, Sonia B. Dhia, Andreas Gleinser, Gunter Winkler, Bernd Deutschmann

Institute of Electronics (4390)

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Abstract

Dense integration and high operating frequencies associated with increased number of I/O buffers of FPGAs are factors contributing to electromagnetic emission (EME) increase. Consequently the radiation issue that used to be discussed at PCB level has shifted to component level. Thus it is of high interest and challenging to investigate chip electromagnetic performance. This paper presents a preliminary analysis about the impact of the placement and routing (PR) process of logic inside the FPGA on the chip EME level. With this purpose, a softcore processor was placed and routed based on three different strategies in the configurable logic block (CLB) array of a commercial FPGA and executed an application code running over an operating system (OS). Three experiments based on far- and near-field emission measurements have been performed.-The obtained results indicate that the EME level can be affected up to 21.8% by the way the processor is placed and routed inside the FPGA.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 Argentine Conference on Electronics - Congreso Argentino de Electronica 2021, CAE 2021
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	88-92
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728175799
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CAE51562.2021.9397567
Publication status	Published - 11 Mar 2021
Event	2021 Argentine Conference on Electronics - Bahia Blanca, Virtuell, Argentina Duration: 11 Mar 2021 → 12 Mar 2021

Conference

Conference	2021 Argentine Conference on Electronics
Abbreviated title	CAE 2021
Country/Territory	Argentina
City	Virtuell
Period	11/03/21 → 12/03/21

Keywords

Commercial Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Electromagnetic emission (EME)
GTEM Cell Test Method
Logic place and route process
Reliability
Surface Scan Test Method

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Instrumentation

Fields of Expertise

Information, Communication & Computing

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Lara, E. L., Constante, A. A., Benfica, J., Vargas, F., Boyer, A., Dhia, S. B., Gleinser, A., Winkler, G., & Deutschmann, B. (2021). Preliminary Study on the Impact of Place and Route Strategy on FPGA Electromagnetic Emission. In 2021 Argentine Conference on Electronics - Congreso Argentino de Electronica 2021, CAE 2021 (pp. 88-92). Article 9397567 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/CAE51562.2021.9397567

Preliminary Study on the Impact of Place and Route Strategy on FPGA Electromagnetic Emission. / Lara, Estevan L.; Constante, Allan A.; Benfica, Juliano et al.
2021 Argentine Conference on Electronics - Congreso Argentino de Electronica 2021, CAE 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021. p. 88-92 9397567.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Lara, EL, Constante, AA, Benfica, J, Vargas, F, Boyer, A, Dhia, SB, Gleinser, A, Winkler, G & Deutschmann, B 2021, Preliminary Study on the Impact of Place and Route Strategy on FPGA Electromagnetic Emission. in 2021 Argentine Conference on Electronics - Congreso Argentino de Electronica 2021, CAE 2021., 9397567, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 88-92, 2021 Argentine Conference on Electronics, Virtuell, Argentina, 11/03/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/CAE51562.2021.9397567

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