In a placed circuit, there are a lot of movable cells that can be flipped to further reduce the total wirelength, without affecting the original placement solution. We aim at solv...
Chiu-Wing Sham, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Chris C. N...
I/O placement has always been a concern in modern IC design. Due to flip-chip technology, I/O can be placed throughout the whole chip without long wires from the periphery of the...
Hung-Ming Chen, I-Min Liu, Martin D. F. Wong, Muzh...
The goal of this paper is to perform a timing optimization of a circuit described by a network of cells on a target structure whose connection delays have discrete values following...
S. A. Senouci, A. Amoura, Helena Krupnova, Gabriel...
The gap between VLSI technology and fabrication technology leads to strong refractive effects in lithography. Consequently, it is a huge challenge to reliably print layout features...
Dramatic progress has been made in algorithms for placement and routing over the last 5 years, with improvements in both speed and quality. Combining placement and routing into a ...
Jarrod A. Roy, Natarajan Viswanathan, Gi-Joon Nam,...