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 …

Force-directed algorithms have been developed over the last 50 years and used in many
application fields, including information visualisation, biological network visualisation …

Automated cell placement is a critical problem in VLSI physical design. New analytical
placement methods that simultaneously spread cells and optimize wirelength have recently …

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

Net weighting is a key technique in large scale timing driven placement, which plays a
crucial role for deep submicron physical synthesis and timing closure. A popular way to …

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 …

The traditional purpose of physical synthesis is to perform timing closure, ie, to create a
placed design that meets its timing specifications while also satisfying electrical, routability …

With aggressive technology scaling and complex design scenarios, timing closure has
become a challenging and tedious job for the designers. Timing violations persist for multi …

This paper presents a novel placement algorithm for timing optimization based on a new
and powerful concept, which we term differential timing analysis. Recognizing that accurate …

We extend the APlace wirelength-driven standard-cell analytic placement framework of AA
Kennings and IL Markov (2002) to address timing-driven and mixed-size (" boulders and …