Description

This book will cover the advanced techniques in placement which is known as one of the most important components of physical design flow in VLSI design. Physical design addresses the back-end layout stage of chip design process. As the technology scales down, the importance of interconnect optimization becomes more important than ever, and physical design, particularly the placement process, stands in the center of interconnect optimization.

It will have three unique characteristics compared against other books on design automation or physical design: 1) focusing solely on most recent placement techniques; 2) Comprehensiveness; 3) (Indirect) comparison among techniques and 4) Optimality analysis.