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                               GENERAL
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This document has been generated in response to user requests and its main
purpose is to facilitate parsing the existing set of partitioning
benchmarks. This README file resides in 
         
	      pub/benchmark/Partitioning93/Translators/ 

The following subdirectories have been created within this directory:


   Map2PNF/                   -            subdirectory 1
              README          -       information       |
              map2pnf         -       shell script      |
              map2pnf.awk     -       awk script        |
              example.map     -       map netlist       |
                                                  ......|

   PNF_Parse/                 -            subdirectory 2
              README          -       information       |
              Makefile        -       for installation  |
              macros.h        -       header            |
              main_pnf        -       C code            |
              parser.c        -       C code            |
              parser.h        -       header            |
              example.pnf     -       NF netlist        |
                                                  ......|

All software in these directories is in public domain, with appropriate
copyrights held by the author:

        Roman Kuznar 
        Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering 
        University of Ljubljana 
        Trzaska 25
        61000 Ljubljana
        S L O V E N I A 

        email: romank@fer.uni-lj.si
        phone: +386-61-1768-351
        fax:   +386-61-264-990 

In the subdirectory Map2PNF we recommend that you execute shellscript
"map2pnf example"  which will generate a file "example.pnf". To see the
usage for this shell command, just type "map2pnf" with no arguments.

In the subdirectory PNF_Parse we recommend that you execute Makefile  which
will generate object code, read the existing file "example.pnf", and output
miscellaneous netlist statistics for this example.

 *** For more details, see README files in Map2PNF/ and PNF_Parse/ ***


For details about our experimental results with these benchmarks, see:

[1] Roman Kuznar, Franc Brglez and Krzystof Kozminski: Cost Minimization
    of Partitions into Multiple Devices, In Proc. of 30th Design
    Automation Conference, Dallas, June 1993, pp. 315--320.

[2] Roman Kuznar, Franc Brglez and Baldomir Zajc: Multi-way Netlist
    Partitioning into Heterogeneous FPGAs and Minimization of Total Design
    Cost and Interconnect, In Proc. of 31th Design Automation Conference,
    San Diego, 1994, pp.  238--243.

[3] Roman Kuznar, Franc Brglez and Baldomir Zajc: A Unified Cost Model for
    Min-Cut Partitioning with Replication Applied to Optimization of Large
    Heterogeneous FPGA Partition, In Proc. of Euro-DAC'94 Conference,
    Grenobe, Sept. 1994, pp.

Reprints of these papers in PostScript will be placed into the directory
pub/benchmark/Publication_dirs.


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