In a placed circuit, there are a lot of movable cells that can be flipped to further reduce the total wirelength, without affecting the original placement solution. We aim at solv...
Chiu-Wing Sham, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Chris C. N...
The wire length estimation is the bottleneck of packing based block placers. To cope with this problem, we present a fast wire length estimation method in this paper. The key idea...
The thermal problem has been emerged as one of the key issues for next-generation IC design. In this paper, we propose a scheme to achieve better thermal distribution for partitio...
We describe an efficient, top-down strategy for overlap removal and floorplan repair which repairs overlaps in floorplans produced by placement algorithms or rough floorplanni...
Kristofer Vorwerk, Andrew A. Kennings, Doris T. Ch...
In this paper, we present a new multi-packing tree (MP-tree) representation for macro placement to handle mixed-size designs. Based on binary trees, the MP-tree is very efficient,...