Publications

Here you can find a mostly up-to-date, chronologically sorted list of my publications. By clicking on the publication title, you should typically be able to access the abstract of the respective work, my own copy of the pdf, slides (if there was a talk and if I was the one giving it), and a link to the source code/artifacts of the project that produced the respective publication. You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Books


Modern Programmable Interconnect Design

Stefan Nikolić

Published in Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2025

Preface: With Moore’s law coming to an end, today’s rising demand for compute puts increasingly more hope in specialized hardware implemented on reconfigurable architectures such as Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Yet, it is often neglected that these architectures themselves experience problems caused by technology scaling. In fact, due to their lower logic density and the need to provide interconnect programmability, rising wire resistance impacts the performance of FPGAs particularly negatively. This is further complicated by the traditional problem of reconfigurable architecture design: exact critical paths are not known at fabrication time.

Recommended citation: Stefan Nikolić, "Modern Programmable Interconnect Design". Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2025. ISBN: 978-3-031-80628-5

Patents


Runtime efficient multi-stage router flow for circuit designs

Dinesh Gaitonde, Chirag Ravishankar, and Stefan Nikolić

Published in US Patent Application No. US20240202423A1 (Published, pending approval), 2024

Recommended citation: Dinesh Gaitonde, Chirag Ravishankar, and Stefan Nikolić. "Runtime efficient multi-stage router flow for circuit designs", 2024. (patent application no. US 20240202423 A1; published, pending approval)
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Journal Articles


Conference Papers


Guaranteed Yet Hard to Find: Uncovering FPGA Routing Convergence Paradox

Shashwat Shrivastava, Stefan Nikolić, Sun Tanaka, Chirag Ravishankar, Dinesh Gaitonde, and Mirjana Stojilović

Published in FCCM'25 (Best Paper Award), 2025

Recommended citation: Shashwat Shrivastava, Stefan Nikolić, Sun Tanaka, Chirag Ravishankar, Dinesh Gaitonde, and Mirjana Stojilović. "Guaranteed Yet Hard to Find: Uncovering FPGA Routing Convergence Paradox"In Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE 33rd Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 05 2025
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IIBLAST: Speeding Up Commercial FPGA Routing by Decoupling and Mitigating the Intra-CLB Bottleneck

Shashwat Shrivastava, Stefan Nikolić, Chirag Ravishankar, Dinesh Gaitonde, and Mirjana Stojilović

Published in ICCAD'23, 2023

Recommended citation: Shashwat Shrivastava, Stefan Nikolić, Chirag Ravishankar, Dinesh Gaitonde, and Mirjana Stojilović. "IIBLAST: Speeding up commercial FPGA routing by decoupling and mitigating the intra-CLB bottleneck". In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 11 2023
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NetCracker: A Peek into the Routing Architecture of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs

Morten B. Petersen, Stefan Nikolić, and Mirjana Stojilović

Published in FPGA'21, 2021

Recommended citation: Morten B. Petersen, Stefan Nikolić, and Mirjana Stojilović. "NetCracker: A peek into the routing architecture of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs". In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, pages 11–22, 2 2021
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Global Is the New Local: FPGA Architecture at 5nm and Beyond

Stefan Nikolić, Francky Catthoor, Zsolt Tőkei, and Paolo Ienne

Published in FPGA'21, 2021

Recommended citation: Stefan Nikolić, Francky Catthoor, Zsolt Tőkei, and Paolo Ienne. "Global is the new local: FPGA architecture at 5nm and beyond". In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, pages 34–44, 2021.
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Straight to the Point: Intra- and Intercluster LUT Connections to Mitigate the Delay of Programmable Routing

Stefan Nikolić, Grace Zgheib, and Paolo Ienne

Published in FPGA'20, 2020

Recommended citation: Stefan Nikolić, Grace Zgheib, and Paolo Ienne. "Straight to the point: Intra- and intercluster LUT connections to mitigate the delay of programmable routing". In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, pages 150–60, 2 2020
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