Large Scale Circuit Placement Gap and Promise大规模电路布局的差距和承诺.pptVIP

Large Scale Circuit Placement: Gap and Promise Jason Cong UCLA VLSI CAD LAB1 Joint work with Chin-Chih Chang, Tim Kong, Michail Romesis, Joseph R. Shinnerl, Min Xie and Xin Yuan Outline Introduction Gap Analysis of Existing Placement Algorithms Scalable Paradigm – Multilevel Placement Why Still Placement Problem True, it has been studied over 30 years, but … We need good solutions more then ever One of most important steps in IC implementation flow Directly defines interconnects Difficult Problem size grows 2X every 18-24 months Moore’s Law Cannot place hierarchically without quality degrad