Truenorth: Design and tool flow of a 65 mw 1 million neuron programmable neurosynaptic chip

F Akopyan, J Sawada, A Cassidy… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The new era of cognitive computing brings forth the grand challenge of developing systems
capable of processing massive amounts of noisy multisensory data. This type of intelligent …

[图书][B] Handbook of approximation algorithms and metaheuristics

TF Gonzalez - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
Delineating the tremendous growth in this area, the Handbook of Approximation Algorithms
and Metaheuristics covers fundamental, theoretical topics as well as advanced, practical …

[图书][B] Electronic design automation: synthesis, verification, and test

LT Wang, YW Chang, KTT Cheng - 2009 - books.google.com
This book provides broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire EDA flow. EDA/VLSI
practitioners and researchers in need of fluency in an" adjacent" field will find this an …

FastPlace: Efficient analytical placement using cell shifting, iterative local refinement and a hybrid net model

N Viswanathan, CCN Chu - … of the 2004 international symposium on …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present FastPlace--a fast, iterative, flat placement algorithm for large-scale
standard cell designs. FastPlace is based on the quadratic placement approach. The …

Can recursive bisection alone produce routable placements?

AE Caldwell, AB Kahng, IL Markov - Proceedings of the 37th annual …, 2000 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Kraftwerk2—A fast force-directed quadratic placement approach using an accurate net model

P Spindler, U Schlichtmann… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The force-directed quadratic placer ldquoKraftwerk2, rdquo as described in this paper, is
based on two main concepts. First, the force that is necessary to distribute the modules on …

Implementation and extensibility of an analytic placer

AB Kahng, Q Wang - Proceedings of the 2004 international symposium …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
Automated cell placement is a critical problem in VLSI physical design. New analytical
placement methods that simultaneously spread cells and optimize wirelength have recently …

Multilevel generalized force-directed method for circuit placement

T Chan, J Cong, K Sze - … of the 2005 international symposium on …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
Automatic circuit placement has received renewed interest recently given the rapid increase
of circuit complexity, increase of interconnect delay, and potential sub-optimality of existing …

mPL6: Enhanced multilevel mixed-size placement

TF Chan, J Cong, JR Shinnerl, K Sze… - Proceedings of the 2006 …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
The multilevel placement package mPL6 combines improved implementations of the global
placer mPL5 (ISPD05) and the XDP legalizer and detailed placer (ASPDAC06). It …

Combinatorial optimization in VLSI design

S Held, B Korte, D Rautenbach… - Combinatorial …, 2011 - ebooks.iospress.nl
VLSI design is probably the most fascinating application area of combinatorial optimization.
Virtually all classical combinatorial optimization problems, and many new ones, occur …