How to estimate the shortest routing length when certain blocks are considered as routing obstacles is becoming an essential problem for block placement because HPWL is no longer v...
Tan Yan, Shuting Li, Yasuhiro Takashima, H. Murata
Abstract-- This paper introduces a new concept of floorplanning and block placement, called structured placement. Regularity is a key criterion of structured placement so that plac...
With the recent advent of deep sub-micron technology and new packaging schemes such as Multi-Chip Modules(MCMs), integrated circuit components are often not rectangular. Most exis...
In [1], Murata et al introduced an elegant representation of block placement called sequence pair. All block placement algorithms which are based on sequence pairs use simulated a...
A block-level placement and routing scheme called Fishbone is presented. The routing uses a two-layer spine topology. The pin locations are configurable and restricted to certain ...