Conference Program    Technical Session

THURSDAY, July 27, 2006, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Room: 303
TOPIC AREA:  PHYSICAL DESIGN


   SESSION 62
  Placement
  Chair: Bill Halpin - Synplicity, Inc., San Jose, CA
  Organizers: Jiang Hu, Louis Scheffer

  This session focuses on new placement techniques for integrated circuits. Included are a new method for floorplan repair after changes, improved approaches to cell flipping, and a new technique for timing driven incremental placement.

  62.1   Constraint-Driven Floorplan Repair
  Speaker(s): Michael D. Moffitt - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  Author(s): Michael D. Moffitt - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Aaron N. Ng - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Igor L. Markov - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Martha E. Pollack - Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  62.2  Optimal Cell Flipping in Placement and Floorplanning
  Speaker(s): Chiu-Wing Sham - Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  Author(s): Chiu-Wing Sham - Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Evangeline Young - Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Chong-Nuen Chu - Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA
  62.3  A New LP Based Incremental Timing Driven Placement for High Performance Designs
  Speaker(s): Tao Luo - Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX
  Author(s): Tao Luo - Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX
David Newmark - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX
David Z. Pan - Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX