We study alternatives to FM-based partitioning in the context of end-case processing for top-down standard-cell placement. The primary motivation is that small partitioning instan...
Andrew E. Caldwell, Andrew B. Kahng, Igor L. Marko...
The presence of fixed terminals in hypergraph partitioning instances arising in top-down standard-cell placement makes such instances qualitatively different from the free hyperg...
Charles J. Alpert, Andrew E. Caldwell, Andrew B. K...