NTUplace4h: A Novel Routability-Driven Placement Algorithm for Hierarchical Mixed-Size Circuit Designs - Hsu, Meng-Kai; Chen, Yi-Fang; Huang, Chau-Chin; Chou, Sheng; Lin, Tzu-Hen; Chen, Tung-Chieh; Chang, Yao-Wen (IEEE transactions on computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems, 2014)
Keywords: Algorithm design and analysis; Algorithms; Circuit design; Circuit synthesis; Congestion; Density; Design engineering; Design methodology; Hierarchies; Optimization; Placement; Routing; physical design; placement; Global routing; layouts