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ISPD
2005
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Thermal via placement in 3D ICs
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...
Brent Goplen, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
ISPD
2005
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Coupling aware timing optimization and antenna avoidance in layer assignment
The sustained progress of VLSI technology has altered the landscape of routing which is a major physical design stage. For timing driven routings, traditional approaches which con...
Di Wu, Jiang Hu, Rabi N. Mahapatra
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
RQL: Global Placement via Relaxed Quadratic Spreading and Linearization
This paper describes a simple and effective quadratic placement algorithm called RQL. We show that a good quadratic placement, followed by local wirelength-driven spreading can pr...
Natarajan Viswanathan, Gi-Joon Nam, Charles J. Alp...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Fast and robust quadratic placement combined with an exact linear net model
— This paper presents a robust quadratic placement approach, which offers both high-quality placements and excellent computational efficiency. The additional force which distrib...
Peter Spindler, Frank M. Johannes
ISPD
2005
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
A semi-persistent clustering technique for VLSI circuit placement
Placement is a critical component of today's physical synthesis flow with tremendous impact on the final performance of VLSI designs. However, it accounts for a significant p...
Charles J. Alpert, Andrew B. Kahng, Gi-Joon Nam, S...