FPGA-Research-Manchester / FABulous

Fabric generator and CAD tools
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Missing documentation of MID wires #140

Closed IAmMarcelJung closed 1 month ago

IAmMarcelJung commented 7 months ago

It seems that there is no documentation for MID wires. The documentation could include an image visualizing the feature with a short explanation.

dirk-koch commented 3 months ago

There is not really anything magic with the MID wires. They are double wires that you can access half-way through. They are modeled as two cascaded single wires. MID wires had been heavily used in older Xilinx devices.

There is however something deeper here: MID wires is one trick to balance metallization congestion towards core cell area....

IAmMarcelJung commented 3 months ago

There may not be anything magic with them, but someone how is unfamiliar with the terminology (like I was) might still not know what they do, although it is quite simple. Maybe a short description might also do the trick and the image is not needed?