Chipletizer 2.0: Toward Cost-Effective Chiplet Design via Reuse-Aware Decomposition
The decomposition-based chiplet design paradigm, which breaks monolithic system-on-chips (SoCs) into smaller chiplets, has proven effective in reducing costs and accelerating development. The vast design space of multi-chiplet systems necessitates automated techniques to maximize their benefits while minimizing overheads. However, current chiplet decomposition flows lack support for exploring reusable chiplets, missing opportunities to efficiently amortize non-recurring engineering costs. To fully unleash the economic potential of chiplets, we propose CHIPLETIZER 2.0, a cost-driven framework that guides SoC decomposition and enables chiplet reuse across a line of products. This early-stage chiplet planning framework determines critical system parameters involving the partition, floorplan, and D2D interface, based on user-specified optimization goals. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared with the existing chiplet decomposition techniques, our proposed framework achieves significant cost improvements on realistic product lines with acceptable overheads.
Authors
- Yinhe Han (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0904-6681)
- Xiaowei Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0874-814X)
- F. Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7134-4981)
- Juying Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2796-6388)
- Ying Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5172-4736)
- Yujie Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0646-4183)
- Ding Yuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8107-7218)
- Huawei Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8082-4218)
- Xihao Liang
Institutions
- Institute of Computing Technology (CN)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
- Published
- 2025-08-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tcad.2025.3602743
- Primary Topic
- Embedded Systems Design Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China