TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Marolt, Daniel
A1  - Scheible, Jürgen
A1  - Jerke, Göran
A1  - Marolt, Vinko
T1  - A self-organization approach for layout floorplanning problems in analog IC design
T2  - 12th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME) : 27- 30 June 2016, Lisbon, Portugal
N2  - In analog layout design, chip floorplans are usually still handcrafted by human experts. Particularly, the nondiscrete variability of block dimensions must be  exploited thereby, which is a serious challenge for optimization-based algorithmic floorplanners. This paper presents a fundamentally new automation approach based on self-organization, in which floorplan blocks can autonomously move, rotate and deform themselves to jointly let compact results emerge from a synergistic flow of interaction. Our approach is able to minimize area and wirelength, supports nonslicing floorplan structures, can consider fully variable block dimensions, accounts for a fixed rectilinear boundary, and works absolutely deterministic. The approach is innovatively different from conventional, top-down oriented floorplanning algorithms.
Y1  - 2016
SN  - so978- 1-5090-0493-5
SB  - so978- 1-5090-0493-5
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/PRIME.2016.7519454
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1109/PRIME.2016.7519454
SP  - 4
S1  - 4
PB  - IEEE
CY  - Piscataway, NJ
ER  -