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 …

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

Because of the increasing dominance of interconnect issues in advanced IC technology,
placement has become a critical step in the IC design flow. To get accurate interconnect …

This dissertation concerns the design of circuits and systems for an emerging technology
known as three-dimensional integration. By stacking individual components, dice, or whole …

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

Placement is one of the most important steps in the RTL-to-GDSII synthesis process, as it
directly defines the interconnects, which have become the bottleneck in circuit and system …

Over the last five years the VLSI Placement community achieved great strides in the
understanding of placement problems, developed new high-performance algorithms, and …

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 …

At the 250nm technology node, interconnect delays account for over 40% of worst delays
[12]. Transition to 130nm and below increases this figure, and hence the relative importance …

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 …