ICCAD
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
In this paper, we develop a new standard cell placement tool, Dragon2000, to solve large scale placement problem effectively. A top-down hierarchical approach is used in Dragon200...
ISPD
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
During the ispd05 placement contest, we employed the forcedirected approach Kraftwerk for global placement complemented by the network-flow based final placer Domino. These powe...
ISPD
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
In this invited note we outline several algorithms and features appearing in Capo 10, free open-source software for congestion-driven standard cell placement, mixed-size placement...
ICCAD
2001
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2001
IEEE
Retiming is a widely investigated technique for performance optimization. It performs powerful modifications on a circuit netlist. However, often it is not clear, whether the pred...