An Incremental Placement Algorithm for Building Block Layout Design Based on the O-Tree Representation

Jing LI  Juebang YU  Hiroshi MIYASHITA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E88-A   No.12   pp.3398-3404
Publication Date: 2005/12/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.12.3398
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Floorplan and Placement
Keyword: 
O-tree representation,  incremental placement,  BBL,  VLSI circuit physical design,  

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Summary: 
Incremental modification and optimization in VLSI physical design is of fundamental importance. Based on the O-tree (ordered tree) representation which has more prominent advantages in comparison with other topological representations of non-slicing floorplans, in this paper, we present an incremental placement algorithm for BBL (Building Block Layout) design in VLSI physical design. The good performance of experimental results in dealing with some instances proves the effectiveness of our algorithm.