ISPD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper, the problem of bus-driven floorplanning is addressed. Given a set of blocks and the bus specification (the width of each bus and the blocks that the bus need to g...
ISPD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
We streamline and extend APlace, the general analytic placement engine based on ideas of Naylor et al. [7] and described in [3, 4, 5]. Previous work explored the adaptability of A...
ISPD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper we introduce the concept of zero-change transformations to quantify the suboptimality of existing placers. Given a netlist and its placement from a placer, we formal...
ISPD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper, we present a very fast and accurate rectilinear Steiner minimal tree (RSMT)1 algorithm called FLUTE. The algorithm is an extension of the wirelength estimation appr...
ISPD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper, we present a hierarchical ratio partitioning based placement algorithm for large-scale mixed-size designs. The placement algorithm consists of three steps: global p...
ISPD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
ISPD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
Automatic circuit placement has received renewed interest recently given the rapid increase of circuit complexity, increase of interconnect delay, and potential sub-optimality of ...
ISPD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
Research in floorplanning and block-packing has generated a variety of data structures to represent spatial configurations of circuit modules. Much of this work focuses on the g...
ISPD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
As thermal problems become more evident, new physical design paradigms and tools are needed to alleviate them. Incorporating thermal vias into integrated circuits (ICs) is a promi...
ISPD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM