Modern Circuit Placement: Best Practices and Results

Benchmarks.- ISPD 2005/2006 Placement Benchmarks.- Locality and Utilization in Placement Suboptimality.- Flat Placement Techniques.- DPlace: Anchor Cell-Based Quadratic Placement with Linear Objective.- Kraftwerk: A Fast and Robust Quadratic Placer Using an Exact Linear Net Model.- Top-Down Partitioning-Based Techniques.- Capo: Congestion-Driven Placement for Standard-cell and RTL Netlists with Incremental Capability.- Congestion Minimization in Modern Placement Circuits.- Multilevel Placement Techniques.- APlace: A High Quality, Large-Scale Analytical Placer.- FastPlace: An Efficient Multilevel Force-Directed Placement Algorithm.- mFAR: Multilevel Fixed-Points Addition-Based VLSI Placement.- mPL6: Enhanced Multilevel Mixed-Size Placement with Congestion Control.- NTUplace3: An Analytical Placer for Large-Scale Mixed-Size Designs.- Conclusion and Challenges.