JOURNAL ARTICLE
Floorplanning for mixed macro block and standard cell designs
Abstract
In this paper, we present ARCHITECT, the floorplanner for high performance Mixed Block and Cell designs. A novel and significant feature of ARCHITECT is that it exploits the flexibility of the standard cell regions by generating arbitrary rectilinear shapes for the flexible blocks. We have implemented ARCHITECT on a Sun SPARC station 1+ using C and Xview. We have tested the floorplanner on various randomly generated examples. Experimental results indicate that ARCHITECT generates floorplans with minimal white space within the user specified bounds.< >
Keywords:
Floorplan Block (permutation group theory) Flexibility (engineering) Computer science Macro Parallel computing Algorithm Mathematics Programming language Embedded system Combinatorics Statistics
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VLSI and FPGA Design Techniques
Physical Sciences → Engineering → Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Embedded Systems Design Techniques
Physical Sciences → Computer Science → Hardware and Architecture
Interconnection Networks and Systems
Physical Sciences → Computer Science → Computer Networks and Communications
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