DeFer: Deferred Decision Making enabled fixed-outline floorplanner

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 161-166

  Yan, Jackey Z ^a   Chu, Chris ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Deferred Decision Making; Fixed outline; Floorplanning

Indexed keywords

DEFERRED DECISION MAKING; FIXED OUTLINE; FLOORPLANNING;

ANNEALING; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CURVE FITTING; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VLSI CIRCUITS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 51549117963     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAC.2008.4555801     Document Type: Conference Paper

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