We present a new timing driven method for global placement. Our method is based on the observation that similar net length reductions in the different nets that make up a path may...
Abstract— Timing and low power emerge as the most important goals in contemporary design. Meanwhile, the majority of placement algorithms developed by industry and academia still...
Standard cells are fundamental circuit building blocks designed at very early design stages. Nanometer standard cells are prone to lithography proximity and process variations. Ho...
Yongchan Ban, Savithri Sundareswaran, David Z. Pan
During the ispd05 placement contest, we employed the forcedirected approach Kraftwerk for global placement complemented by the network-flow based final placer Domino. These powe...
In this paper, we present a new multipacking-tree (MP-tree) representation for macro placements to handle modern mixed-size designs with large macros and high chip utilization rate...