Novel methodology and algorithms to seamlessly integrate logic synthesis and physical placement through a transformational approach are presented. Contrary to most placement algor...
Wilm E. Donath, Prabhakar Kudva, Leon Stok, Paul V...
— While physically driven synthesis techniques have proven to be an effective method to meet tight timing constraints required by a design, the incremental placement step during ...
Andrew C. Ling, Deshanand P. Singh, Stephen Dean B...
In the context of physical synthesis, large-scale standard-cell placement algorithms must facilitate incremental changes to layout, both local and global. In particular, flexible...
In the context of physical synthesis, large-scale standard-cell placement algorithms must facilitate incremental changes to layout, both local and global. In particular, flexible ...
Saurabh N. Adya, Igor L. Markov, Paul G. Villarrub...
This paper describes a new force directed global placement algorithm that exploits and extends techniques from two leading placers, Force-directed [12] [26] and Mongrel [22]. It c...