SMatch: Structural Matching for Fast Resynthesis in FPGAs

Designers wait several hours to get synthesis, placement and routing results even for small changes. Commercial FPGA flows allow for resynthesis after code changes, however, they target large code changes with not so effective incremental flows. Wepropose SMatch, a flow for FPGAs that has a novel incremental elaboration and novel incremental FPGA placement and routing that improves the state-of-the-art by reducing the amount of placement and routing work needed. We evaluate our approach against commercial FPGAs flows. Our method finishes synthesis, placement, and routing in under 30s for most changes of publicly available benchmarks with negligible QoR impact, being over 20× faster than existing incremental FPGA flows.