Patent ID: 7617470

Claim:
A method for increasing yielded performance of a reconfigurable integrated circuit comprising integrated circuit components and connections, the method comprising: selecting a reconfigurable integrated circuit; measuring a timing delay of the integrated circuit components and connections; mapping a target application to the reconfigurable integrated circuit based on the measured timing delay, the mapping comprising placement of clusters; routing between the clusters; and assignment of lower-level primitives inside the clusters, wherein the assignment of the lower-level primitives comprises: picking a most critical function from a set of functions to be assigned; assigning the most critical function to a fastest resource from a set of resources; removing the most critical function from the set of functions; removing the fastest resource from the set of resources; and repeating the picking, the assigning and the removing until all functions in the set of functions are assigned to resources in the set of resources; and programming the reconfigurable integrated circuit based on the mapping of the target application.