Chapter 10. Floorplanning
About This Chapter
Floorplanning is an essential design step for hierarchical, building-module design methodology. Floorplanning provides early feedback that evaluates architectural decisions, estimates chip areas, and estimates delay and congestion caused by wiring. As technology advances, design complexity is increasing and the circuit size is getting larger. To cope with the increasing design complexity, hierarchical design and intellectual property (IP) modules are widely used. This trend makes floorplanning much more critical to the quality of a very large-scale integration (VLSI) design than ever.
This chapter starts with the formulation of the floorplanning problem. After the problem formulation, the two most ...
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