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,...
This work focuses on congestion-driven placement of standard cells into rows in the fixed-die context. We summarize the stateof-the-art after two decades of research in recursive ...
Andrew E. Caldwell, Andrew B. Kahng, Igor L. Marko...
In this paper, we summarize circuit placement techniques and algorithms developed by the BLAC CAD research group; these have been integrated into our recursive bisection based pla...
Ameya R. Agnihotri, Satoshi Ono, Patrick H. Madden
In this paper, we present improvements to recursive bisection based placement. In contrast to prior work, our horizontal cut lines are not restricted to row boundaries; this avoid...
Ameya R. Agnihotri, Mehmet Can Yildiz, Ateen Khatk...
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...