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This paper presents a heuristic approach for solving the placement of Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits. Placement is a crucial step in the physical design of integrated circuits. During this step, designers choose the position…
Packaging has become a crucial process due to the paradigm shift of More than Moore. Addressing manufacturing and yield issues is a significant challenge for modern layout algorithms. We propose to use printed circuit board (PCB) placement…
Automated placement of components on printed circuit boards (PCBs) is a critical stage in placement layout design. While reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to system-on-chip IP block placement and chiplet arrangement…
Placement Optimization is an important problem in systems and chip design, which consists of mapping the nodes of a graph onto a limited set of resources to optimize for an objective, subject to constraints. In this paper, we start by…
This article presents a generic method to solve 2D multi-objective placement problem for free-form components. The proposed method is a relaxed placement technique combined with an hybrid algorithm based on a genetic algorithm and a…
This paper presents the novel idea of multi-placement structures, for a fast and optimized placement instantiation in analog circuit synthesis. These structures need to be generated only once for a specific circuit topology. When used in…
The placement problem in Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) circuits is a critical step in chip design. Its primary goal is to optimize the wirelength of circuit components within a confined area while adhering to nonoverlapping…
Design of printed circuit board (PCB) stack-up requires the consideration of characteristic impedance, insertion loss and crosstalk. As there are many parameters in a PCB stack-up design, the optimization of these parameters needs to be…
To run an algorithm on a quantum computer, one must choose an assignment from logical qubits in a circuit to physical qubits on quantum hardware. This task of initial qubit placement, or qubit allocation, is especially important on…
Printed Circuit Boards are the foundation for the functioning of any electronic device, and therefore are an essential component for various industries such as automobile, communication, computation, etc. However, one of the challenges…
Robotic pick and place stands at the heart of autonomous manipulation. When conducted in cluttered or complex environments robots must jointly reason about the selected grasp and desired placement locations to ensure success. While several…
This paper deals with a bilevel approach of the location-allocation problem with dimensional facilities. We present a general model that allows us to consider very general shapes of domains for the dimensional facilities and we prove the…
In analog circuits, process variation can cause unpredictability in circuit performance. Common-centroid (CC) type layouts have been shown to mitigate process-induced variations and are widely used to match circuit elements. Nevertheless,…
Topology optimization of modular structures and mechanisms enables balancing the performance of automatically-generated individualized designs, as required by Industry 4.0, with enhanced sustainability by means of component reuse. For…
Range-based localization is ubiquitous: global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) power mobile phone-based navigation, and autonomous mobile robots can use range measurements from a variety of modalities including sonar, radar, and even…
Given a set of rectangular modules with fixed area and variable dimensions, and a fixed rectangular circuit. The placement of Fixed-Outline Floorplanning with Soft Modules (FOFSM) aims to determine the dimensions and position of each module…
This work introduces an automated ply partitioning strategy for large-scale laminar composite manufacturing. It specifically targets the problem of fabricating large plies from available spooled materials, while minimizing the adverse…
We suggest modified bi-level approach for finding the best stacking sequence of laminated composite structures subject to mechanical, blending and manufacturing constraints. We propose to use both the number of plies laid up at predefined…
For its advantage in GPU acceleration and less dependency on human experts, machine learning has been an emerging tool for solving the placement and routing problems, as two critical steps in modern chip design flow. Being still in its…
This study presents a framework for optimizing the two-dimensional (2D) placement of electric motorcycle powertrain elements, accounting for the position, the orientation and geometric irregularities. Specifically, we construct a 2D…