PARSAC: Fast, Human-quality Floorplanning for Modern SoCs with Complex Design Constraints

H Mostafa, U Mallappa, M Galkin, M Phielipp… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The floorplanning of Systems-on-a-Chip (SoCs) and of chip sub-systems is a crucial step in
the physical design flow as it determines the optimal shapes and locations of the blocks that …

Floorplanning of VLSI by Mixed-Variable Optimization

J Sun, H Cheng, J Wu, Z Zhu, Y Chen - International Symposium on …, 2023 - Springer
By formulating the floorplanning of VLSI as a mixed-variable optimization problem, this
paper proposes to solve it by a memetic algorithm, where the discrete orientation variables …