Title
An area-optimality study of floorplanning
Abstract
A novel algorithm for rectangular floorplanning with guaranteed 100% area utilization is used to construct new sets of floorplanning benchmarks. By minimizing the maximum block aspect ratio subject to a zero-dead-space constraint, example zero-dead-space (ZDS) floorplans matching the area profiles of any existing floorplanning benchmark circuits can be constructed. A mathematical analysis shows that the aspect ratios of the ZDS benchmarks' blocks are uniformly bounded within [1, 3] in most cases. Block packings produced by the Parquet, B*-tree, TCG-S, and BloBB packages on these new benchmarks are compared to the optimal-area floorplans produced by the ZDS algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/981066.981083
ISPD
Keywords
Field
DocType
new benchmarks,example zero-dead-space,existing floorplanning benchmark circuit,floorplanning benchmarks,area profile,zds algorithm,aspect ratio,rectangular floorplanning,zds benchmarks,area utilization,area-optimality study,aspect ratios,algorithms,benchmarking,mathematical analysis,placement,floorplanning
Aspect ratio (image),Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Uniform boundedness,Electronic circuit,Floorplan
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-817-2
10
0.59
References 
Authors
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jason Cong17069515.06
Gabriele Nataneli2212.06
Michail Romesis319912.05
Joseph R. Shinnerl442827.27