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Publication
DATE 2000
Conference paper
Transformational placement and synthesis
Abstract
Novel methodology and algorithms to seamlessly integrate logic synthesis and physical placement through a transformational approach are presented. Contrary to most placement algorithms that minimize a global cost function based on an abstract representation of the design, we decomposed the placement function into a set of transforms and coupled them directly with incremental timing, noise, and/or power analyzers. This coupling results in a direct and more accurate feedback on optimizations for placement actions. These placement transforms are then integrated with traditional logic synthesis transforms leading to a converging set of optimizations based on the concurrent manipulation of boolean, electrical, as well as physical data. Experimental results indicate that the proposed approach creates an efficient converging design flow that eliminates placement and synthesis iteration. It results in timing improvements, and maintains other global placement measures such as wire congestion and wire length. The flexibility of the transformational approach allows us to easily add, extend and support more sophisticated algorithms that involve critical as well as non-critical regions and target a variety of metrics including noise, yield and manufacturability:. © 2000 IEEE.