As the scale of integrated circuits keeps increasing, it is witnessed that there is a surge in the
research of electronic design automation (EDA) to make the technology node scaling …

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

As the complexity and scale of circuits keep growing, clocking architectures of FPGAs have
become more complex to meet the timing requirement. In this paper, to optimize wirelength …

Placement is central to IC physical design: it determines spatial embedding, and hence
parasitics and performance. From coarse-to fine-grain, placement is conjointly optimized …

Modern circuits often contain standard cells of different row heights to meet various design
requirements. Higher cells give larger drive strengths at the costs of larger areas and power …

An increasing number of multi-deck cells occupying multiple rows (eg multi-bit registers) are
used in advanced node technologies to achieve low power and high performance. The multi …

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-size cell circuits dominate in advanced technology node designs, with attendant
increases in layout complexity. The introduction of multi-row-height cells requires additional …

Placement is one of the most critical stages in the physical synthesis flow. Circuits with
increasing numbers of cells of multirow height have brought challenges to traditional placers …

Placement is one of the most critical stages in the physical synthesis flow. Circuits with
increasing numbers of cells of multi-row height have brought challenges to traditional …