VLSI cell placement techniques

K Shahookar, P Mazumder - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 1991 - dl.acm.org
VLSI cell placement problem is known to be NP complete. A wide repertoire of heuristic
algorithms exists in the literature for efficiently arranging the logic cells on a VLSI chip. The …

A survey of computational approaches to three-dimensional layout problems

J Cagan, K Shimada, S Yin - Computer-Aided Design, 2002 - Elsevier
The component layout or packaging problem requires efficient search of large,
discontinuous spaces. This survey paper reviews the state-of-the-art in product layout …

Robot motion planning: A distributed representation approach

J Barraquand, JC Latombe - The International Journal of …, 1991 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose a new approach to robot path planning that consists of building and searching a
graph connecting the local minima of a potential function defined over the robot's …

Wallplan: synthesizing floorplans by learning to generate wall graphs

J Sun, W Wu, L Liu, W Min, G Zhang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Floorplan generation has drawn widespread interest in the community. Recent learning-
based methods for generating realistic floorplans have made significant progress while a …

A deep reinforcement learning approach for global routing

H Liao, W Zhang, X Dong… - Journal of …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Global routing has been a historically challenging problem in the electronic circuit design,
where the challenge is to connect a large and arbitrary number of circuit components with …

[图书][B] Reconfigurable computing: Accelerating computation with field-programmable gate arrays

MB Gokhale, PS Graham - 2006 - books.google.com
A one-of-a-kind survey of the field of Reconfigurable Computing Gives a comprehensive
introduction to a discipline that offers a 10X-100X acceleration of algorithms over …

Optimal groundwater management: 1. Simulated annealing

DE Dougherty, RA Marryott - Water Resources Research, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Simulated annealing is introduced and applied to the optimization of groundwater
management problems cast in combinatorial form. This heuristic, probabilistic optimization …

Droplet routing in the synthesis of digital microfluidic biochips

F Su, W Hwang, K Chakrabarty - Proceedings of the Design …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in microfluidics are expected to lead to sensor systems for high-throughput
biochemical analysis. CAD tools are needed to handle increased design complexity for such …

A new class of iterative Steiner tree heuristics with good performance

AB Kahng, G Robins - … on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated …, 1992 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fast approach to the minimum rectilinear Steiner tree (MRST) problem is presented. The
method yields results that reduce wire length by up to 2% to 3% over the previous methods …

[图书][B] Digital microfluidic biochips: synthesis, testing, and reconfiguration techniques

K Chakrabarty, F Su - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Digital Microfluidic Biochips focuses on the automated design and production of microfluidic-
based biochips for large-scale bioassays and safety-critical applications. Bridging areas of …