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DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
DeFer: deferred decision making enabled fixed-outline floorplanner
In this paper, we present DeFer -- a fast, high-quality and nonstochastic fixed-outline floorplanning algorithm. DeFer generates a non-slicing floorplan by compacting a slicing fl...
Jackey Z. Yan, Chris Chu
ASPDAC
1999
ACM
112views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 1999»
13 years 12 months ago
Relaxed Simulated Tempering for VLSI Floorplan Designs
In the past two decades, the simulated annealing technique has been considered as a powerful approach to handle many NP-hard optimization problems in VLSI designs. Recently, a new...
Jason Cong, Tianming Kong, Dongmin Xu, Faming Lian...
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
100views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Micro-architecture Pipelining Optimization with Throughput-Aware Floorplanning
- For modern processor designs in nanometer technologies, both block and interconnect pipelining are needed to achieve multi-gigahertz clock frequency, but previous approaches cons...
Yuchun Ma, Zhuoyuan Li, Jason Cong, Xianlong Hong,...
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
122views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Network flow-based power optimization under timing constraints in MSV-driven floorplanning
Abstract— Power consumption has become a crucial problem in modern circuit design. Multiple Supply Voltage (MSV) design is introduced to provide higher flexibility in controllin...
Qiang Ma, Evangeline F. Y. Young
ISQED
2002
IEEE
126views Hardware» more  ISQED 2002»
14 years 14 days ago
Formulae for Performance Optimization and Their Applications to Interconnect-Driven Floorplanning
As the process technology advances into the deep submicron era, interconnect plays a dominant role in determining circuit performance. Buffer insertion/sizing and wire sizing are ...
Nicholas Chia-Yuan Chang, Yao-Wen Chang, Iris Hui-...