ICCAD
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
In this paper, we develop a new standard cell placement tool, Dragon2000, to solve large scale placement problem effectively. A top-down hierarchical approach is used in Dragon200...
ISPD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
During the ispd05 placement contest, we employed the forcedirected approach Kraftwerk for global placement complemented by the network-flow based final placer Domino. These powe...
ISPD
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2006
ACM
In this invited note we outline several algorithms and features appearing in Capo 10, free open-source software for congestion-driven standard cell placement, mixed-size placement...
ICCAD
2001
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2001
IEEE
Retiming is a widely investigated technique for performance optimization. It performs powerful modifications on a circuit netlist. However, often it is not clear, whether the pred...