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ISPD
2004
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Recursive bisection based mixed block placement
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,...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
Robust mixed-size placement under tight white-space constraints
A novel and very simple correct-by-construction top-down methodology for high-utilization mixed-size placement is presented. The PolarBear algorithm combines recursive cutsize-dri...
Jason Cong, Michail Romesis, Joseph R. Shinnerl