FFTPL: An Analytic Placement Algorithm Using Fast Fourier Transform for Density Equalization
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
2013-12-18 v1 Hardware Architecture
Numerical Analysis
Abstract
We propose a flat nonlinear placement algorithm FFTPL using fast Fourier transform for density equalization. The placement instance is modeled as an electrostatic system with the analogy of density cost to the potential energy. A well-defined Poisson's equation is proposed for gradient and cost computation. Our placer outperforms state-of-the-art placers with better solution quality and efficiency.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1312.4587,
title = {FFTPL: An Analytic Placement Algorithm Using Fast Fourier Transform for Density Equalization},
author = {Jingwei Lu and Pengwen Chen and Chin-Chih Chang and Lu Sha and Dennis Jen-Hsin Huang and Chin-Chi Teng and Chung-Kuan Cheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.4587},
year = {2013}
}