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ISPD
2003
ACM
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Porosity aware buffered steiner tree construction
— In order to achieve timing closure on increasingly complex IC designs, buffer insertion needs to be performed on thousands of nets within an integrated physical synthesis syste...
Charles J. Alpert, Gopal Gandham, Milos Hrkic, Jia...
ISPD
2003
ACM
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Partition-driven standard cell thermal placement
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...
Guoqiang Chen, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
ISPD
2003
ACM
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Optimality, scalability and stability study of partitioning and placement algorithms
This paper studies the optimality, scalability and stability of stateof-the-art partitioning and placement algorithms. We present algorithms to construct two classes of benchmarks...
Jason Cong, Michail Romesis, Min Xie
ISPD
2003
ACM
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Benchmarking for large-scale placement and beyond
Over the last five years the VLSI Placement community achieved great strides in the understanding of placement problems, developed new high-performance algorithms, and achieved i...
Saurabh N. Adya, Mehmet Can Yildiz, Igor L. Markov...
ISPD
2003
ACM
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Research directions for coevolution of rules and routers
Design rules in advanced IC manufacturing processes are increasingly problematic for modern router architectures and algorithms. This paper first reviews types and causes of “d...
Andrew B. Kahng