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DATE
2004
IEEE
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Boosting: Min-Cut Placement with Improved Signal Delay
In this work we improve top-down min-cut placers in the context of timing closure. Using the concept of boosting factors, we adjust net weights according to net spans, so as to re...
Andrew B. Kahng, Igor L. Markov, Sherief Reda
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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Hippocrates: First-Do-No-Harm Detailed Placement
Physical synthesis optimizations and engineering change orders typically change the locations of cells, resize cells or add more cells to the design after global placement. Unfort...
Haoxing Ren, David Z. Pan, Charles J. Alpert, Gi-J...