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 …

Since their introduction in 1984, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become
one of the most popular implementation media for digital circuits and have grown into a $2 …

We study scaling in the context of typical block-level wiring distributions, and identify its
impact on the design process. In particular, we study the implications of exponentially …

We present a new force directed method for global placement. Besides the well-known wire
length dependent forces we use additional forces to reduce cell overlaps and to consider the …

In this paper we introduce a new Simulated Annealing-based timing-driven placement
algorithm for FPGAs. This paper has three main contributions. First, our algorithm employs a …

This work focuses on congestion-driven placement of standard cells into rows in the fixed-
die context. We summarize the state-of-the-art after two decades of research in recursive …

Digital system designs are the product of valuable effort and know-how. Their embodiments,
from software and hardware description language program down to device-level netlist and …

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

Interconnect has become the dominating factor in determining circuit performance and
reliability in deep submicron designs. In this embedded tutorial, we first discuss the trends …

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 …