EE244: Design Technology for Integrated Circuits and Systems Outline Lecture 3.1

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EE244: Design Technology for Integrated Circuits and Systems Outline Lecture 3.1

Physical Design: Overall Flow

Rent’s Rule

Rent’s Rule

Rent’s Curves for Chips & Systems

Average Interconnection Length

Initial Placement: Min-Cut

Mincut Initial Placement

Mincut Initial Placement

Placement Improvement

Pairwise Interchange

Force-Directed Relaxation

Other Force-Directed Methods

Comparison of Interchange Strategies

 Author: Richard Newton

Email: rnewton@ic.eecs.berkeley.edu

Home Page: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee244