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Floorplanning with Consideration of White Space Resource Distribution for Repeater Planning
San Jose, California March 21-March 23
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISQED.2005.58Sixth International Symposium on Qual ...
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Song Chen, Tsinghua Univ. China
Xianlong Hong, Tsinghua Univ. China
Sheqin Dong, Tsinghua Univ. China
Yuchun Ma, Tsinghua Univ. China
Chung-kuan Cheng, Univ. of California, San Diego
In this paper, we proposed an effective and efficient model to evaluate the white space resource distribution in the floorplan/placement. The model discretizes the chip with a homogeneous rectangular mesh, in which the cost of each grid depends on the white space area and the routing congestion. The model has gotten application in our floorplanner to plan a good white space resources distribution to favor the later stage of repeater planning. On the other hand, non-zero area white-space blocks, which will join the formation of floorplan configurations, are introduced to adjust the amount and distribution of white space resources. Finally, a novel graph-based repeater assignment algorithm is devised to achieve the repeater planning. The number of nets failed to meet the repeater insertion constraint is reduced by 15.6% on penalty of 2.2% area usage reduction.
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Song Chen, Xianlong Hong, Sheqin Dong, Yuchun Ma, Chung-kuan Cheng, "Floorplanning with Consideration of White Space Resource Distribution for Repeater Planning," isqed, pp.628-633, Sixth International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED'05), 2005
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