As integrated circuit technology plumbs ever greater depths in the scaling of feature sizes, maintaining the paradigm of deterministic Boolean computation is increasingly challeng...
In this paper, we present a new multi-packing tree (MP-tree) representation for macro placement to handle mixed-size designs. Based on binary trees, the MP-tree is very efficient,...
With increasing time-to-market pressure and shortening semiconductor product cycles, more and more chips are being designed with library-based methodologies. In spite of this shif...
While previous watermarking-based approaches to intellectual property protection (IPP) have asymmetrically emphasized the IP provider's rights, the true goal of IPP is to ens...
Andrew E. Caldwell, Hyun-Jin Choi, Andrew B. Kahng...
We empirically assess the implications of fixed terminals for hypergraph partitioning heuristics. Our experimental testbed incorporates a leading-edge multilevel hypergraph partit...
Andrew E. Caldwell, Andrew B. Kahng, Igor L. Marko...