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GECCO
2004
Springer
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An Island-Based GA Implementation for VLSI Standard-Cell Placement
Genetic algorithms require relatively large computation time to solve optimization problems, especially in VLSI CAD such as module placement. Therefore, island-based parallel GAs a...
Guangfa Lu, Shawki Areibi
ICCSA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Parallel Tabu Search Algorithm for Optimizing Multiobjective VLSI Placement
Abstract. In this paper, we present a parallel tabu search (TS) algorithm for efficient optimization of a constrained multiobjective VLSI standard cell placement problem. The prima...
Mahmood R. Minhas, Sadiq M. Sait
VLSID
1996
IEEE
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Parallel simulated annealing strategies for VLSI cell placement
Simulated annealing based standard cell placement for VLSI designs has long been acknowledged as a compute-intensive process, and as a result several research efforts have been un...
John A. Chandy, Prithviraj Banerjee
ISCAS
2005
IEEE
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Multiobjective VLSI cell placement using distributed simulated evolution algorithm
— Simulated Evolution (SimE) is a sound stochastic approximation algorithm based on the principles of adaptation. If properly engineered it is possible for SimE to reach nearopti...
Sadiq M. Sait, Ali Mustafa Zaidi, Mustafa I. Ali
HEURISTICS
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Parallelizing Tabu Search on a Cluster of Heterogeneous Workstations
In this paper, we present the parallelization of tabu search on a network of workstations using PVM. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposition strate...
Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Sadiq M. Sait, Habib Youssef, ...