A self-organization approach for layout floorplanning problems in analog IC design
- 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.
| Author of HS Reutlingen | Marolt, Daniel; Scheible, Jürgen |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/PRIME.2016.7519454 |
| ISBN: | so978- 1-5090-0493-5 |
| Published in: | 12th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME) : 27- 30 June 2016, Lisbon, Portugal |
| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Place of publication: | Piscataway, NJ |
| Document Type: | Conference proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2016 |
| Page Number: | 4 |
| DDC classes: | 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau |
| Open access?: | Nein |
| Licence (German): |  In Copyright - Urheberrechtlich geschützt |
