Due to the increasing size of integrated circuits (ICs), their design and optimization phases
(ie, computer-aided design, CAD) grow increasingly complex. At design time, a large design …

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 …

Placement is an essential task in modern chip design, aiming at placing millions of circuit
modules on a 2D chip canvas. Unlike the human-centric solution, which requires months of …

The Nesterov's method approach to analytic placement has recently demonstrated strong
solution quality and scalability. We dissect the previous implementation strategy and show …

We develop a flat, analytic, and nonlinear placement algorithm, ePlace, which is more
effective, generalized, simpler, and faster than previous works. Based on the analogy …

We propose an electrostatics-based placement algorithm for large-scale mixed-size circuits
(ePlace-MS). ePlace-MS is generalized, flat, analytic and nonlinear. The density modeling …

The increasing complexity of modern very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design highlights
the significance of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) technologies. Chip placement is a …

We propose a flat, analytic, mixed-size placement algorithm ePlace-3D for three-dimension
integrated circuits (3D-ICs) using nonlinear optimization. Our contributions are (1) …

The complexity of chip design has consistently grown, adhering to Moore's law. In this paper,
we examine a crucial step in integrated circuit design called chip macro placement …

Placement is one of the most important problems in electronic design automation. Although
it has been investigated for several decades, a more efficient core engine is critically needed …