Many current designs contain a large number of standard cells intermixed with larger macro blocks. The range of size in these “mixed block” designs complicates the placement p...
Ateen Khatkhate, Chen Li 0004, Ameya R. Agnihotri,...
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...
Placement is one of the most important steps in the RTLto-GDSII synthesis process, as it directly defines the interconnects, which have become the bottleneck in circuit and syste...
Jason Cong, Tim Kong, Joseph R. Shinnerl, Min Xie,...
Abstract. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) finds use in numerous applications involving item identification and tracking. In a typical application, RFID tags are attached t...
This paper presents a direct performance-driven placement algorithm for analog integrated circuits. The performance specications directly drive the layout tools without intermedi...
Koen Lampaert, Georges G. E. Gielen, Willy M. C. S...