ISPD
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper, the problem of bus-driven floorplanning is addressed. Given a set of blocks and the bus specification (the width of each bus and the blocks that the bus need to g...
ISPD
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
We streamline and extend APlace, the general analytic placement engine based on ideas of Naylor et al. [7] and described in [3, 4, 5]. Previous work explored the adaptability of A...
ISPD
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper we introduce the concept of zero-change transformations to quantify the suboptimality of existing placers. Given a netlist and its placement from a placer, we formal...
ISPD
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper, we present a very fast and accurate rectilinear Steiner minimal tree (RSMT)1 algorithm called FLUTE. The algorithm is an extension of the wirelength estimation appr...
ISPD
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper, we present a hierarchical ratio partitioning based placement algorithm for large-scale mixed-size designs. The placement algorithm consists of three steps: global p...
ISPD
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
ISPD
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Automatic circuit placement has received renewed interest recently given the rapid increase of circuit complexity, increase of interconnect delay, and potential sub-optimality of ...
ISPD
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Research in floorplanning and block-packing has generated a variety of data structures to represent spatial configurations of circuit modules. Much of this work focuses on the g...
ISPD
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
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...
ISPD
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM