The recent ability to measure quickly and inexpensively dense sets of points on physical objects has deeply influenced the way engineers used to represent shapes in CAD systems, ...
Alex Yvart, Stefanie Hahmann, Georges-Pierre Bonne...
In an industry project with a German car manufacturer we are faced with the challenge of placing a maximum number of uniform rigid rectangular boxes in the interior of a car trunk...
Friedrich Eisenbrand, Stefan Funke, Andreas Karren...
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,...
FCA has been successfully applied to software engineering tasks such as source code analysis and class hierarchy re-organization. Most notably, FCA hematics behind the mechanism of...
Michel Dao, Marianne Huchard, Mohamed Rouane Hacen...
Decreasing feature sizes and increasing package densities are making thermal issues extremely important in IC design. Uneven thermal maps and hot spots in ICs cause physical stres...