Title
Floating Steiner trees
Abstract
We study the reproducing placement problem, which finds application in layout-driven logic synthesis. In each phase, a module (or gate) is decomposed into two (or more) simpler modules. The goal is to find a “good” placement in each phase. The problem, being iterative in nature, requires an iterative algorithm. In solving the RPP, we introduce the notion of minimum floating Steiner trees (MFST). We employ an MFST algorithm as a central step in solving the RPP. A Hanan-like theorem is established for the MFST problem, and two approximation algorithms are proposed. Experiments on commonly employed benchmarks verify the effectiveness of the proposed technique
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1109/12.663766
Computers, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
circuit layout CAD,logic CAD,tree data structures,Hanan-like theorem,Steiner trees,gate level design,iterative algorithm,logic synthesis,minimum floating Steiner trees,placement problem,reproducing placement problem
Logic synthesis,Approximation algorithm,Mathematical optimization,Logic gate,Algorithm design,Iterative method,Computer science,Steiner tree problem,Tree (data structure),Algorithm,OR gate
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
47
2
0018-9340
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.42
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Sarrafzadeh163563.19
Wei-Liang Lin240.42
C. K. Wong31459513.44