Given the significance of placement in IC physical design, extensive research studies
performed over the last 50 years addressed numerous aspects of global and detailed …

At modern technology nodes, improving routability and reducing total wirelength are no
longer sufficient to close timing. Incremental timing-driven placement (TDP) seeks to resolve …

Placement is critical to the timing closure of the very-large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuit
design flow. This paper proposes a differentiable-timing-driven global placement framework …

Timing optimization is critical to integrated circuit (IC) design closure. Existing global
placement algorithms mostly focus on wirelength optimization without considering timing. In …

Optimizing timing is critical to the design closure of integrated circuits (ICs). However, most
existing algorithms for circuit placement focus on the optimization of wirelength instead of …

This chapter reviews two basic sets of netweighting algorithms: static netweighting and
dynamic netweighting. It explores two global placement approaches: partitioning and force …

Timing-driven placement (TDP) finds new legal locations for standard cells so as to minimize
timing violations while preserving placement quality. Although violations may arise from …

Although it is well-known that sampling in the time-domain leads to periodicity in the
frequency domain, this periodic or circular nature of discrete-time frequency estimates is …

In this paper, we propose a new linear programming based timing driven placement
framework for high performance designs. Our LP framework is mainly net-based, but it takes …

Physical synthesis tools are responsible for achieving timing closure. Starting with 130nm
designs, multiple cycles are required to cross the chip, making latch placement critical to …