Placement is an important step in modern verylarge-scale integrated (VLSI) designs.
Detailed placement is a placement refining procedure intensively called throughout the …

Mixed-cell-height circuits have become popular in advanced technologies for better power,
area, routability, and performance tradeoffs. With technology and region constraints imposed …

Mixed-cell-height circuits have prevailed in advanced technology to address various design
requirements. Along with device scaling, complex minimum-implant-area (MIA) constraints …

Modern circuits often contain standard cells of different row heights to meet various design
requirements. Taller cells give larger drive strengths and higher speed at the cost of larger …

A circuit design with non-integer multiple cell height (NIMCH) is more flexible for optimizing
area, timing, and power simultaneously. A cell with a larger height provides higher pin …

The placement stage of the physical design of very large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI)
specifies the arrangement and order of standard cells and devices within an area, and the …

Along with device scaling, the drain-to-drain abutment (DDA) and fence region constraints
arise as emerging challenges in modern circuit designs, incurring additional difficulties …

The mathematical formulation of the mixed-cell-height circuit legalization (MCHCL) problem
can be expressed by a linear complementarity problem (LCP) with the system matrix being a …

As the feature size decreases, leakage power consumption becomes an important target in
the design. Using multiple threshold voltages (VTs) in cell-based designs is a popular …

With the increasing complexity in modern circuit designs, the 6T&6TPPNN circuits have
become popular in advanced technologies for better trade-offs among routability, timing …