CPMO --- Constrained Placement by Multilevel Optimization
2006 SRC Proposal: Physical Synthesis for Power under Process Variation 
Multilevel Optimization with Nonconvex Nonlinear Programming for Large Scale Circuit Placement with Complex Constraints
Supported by the SRC as Task 1091.001, continued from Task 686.001, and by the NSF as grant CCR-9901153.
People
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Principal Investigators | Jason Cong |
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Software
| mPL | FMMA |
Publications
Book
Jason Cong and Joseph Shinnerl (editors). Multilevel Optimization in VLSICAD . Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2003.
Journal Papers
1. C.-C. Chang, J. Cong, D. Pan, and X. Yuan, "Multilevel Global Placement with Congestion Control," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 395-409, April, 2003.
2. C.-C. Chang, J. Cong, M. Romesis, and M. Xie, "Optimality and Scalability Study of Existing Placement Algorithms," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, pp.537 - 549, April, 2004.
3. Jason Cong, Joseph R. Shinnerl, Min Xie, Tim Kong, and Xin Yuan, “ Large-Scale Circuit Placement ,” ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems , Vol. 10, No. 2, April 2005.
Conference Papers
1. T. Chan, J. Cong, T. Kong and J. Shinnerl, "Multilevel Optimization for Large-scale Circuit Placement," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design, San Jose, California, pp. 171--176, November, 2000..
2. C-C. Chang, J. Cong, Z. Pan and X. Yuan "Physical Hierarchy Generation with Routing Congestion and Control," Proc. International Symposium on Physical Design, pp36-41, San Diego, California, April 2002.
3. C.-C. Chang, J. Cong and M. Xie, "Optimality and Scalability Study of Existing Placement Algorithms," Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Kitakyushu, Japan, pp 621-627, January 2003.
4. C.-C. Chang, J. Cong and X. Yuan, "Multi-level Placement for Large-Scale Mixed-Size IC Designs," Proc. Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp 325-330, January 2003.
5. J. Cong, M. Romesis and M. Xie, "Optimality, Scalability and Stability Study of Partitioning and Placement Algorithms," Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physical Design, Monterey, California, pp. 88 -- 94, April, 2003.
6. J. Cong, and X. Yuan, "Multilevel Global Placement with Retiming," ACM/SIGDA Proceedings of the 40th Design Automation Conference, Anaheim, California, pp 208 - 213, June 2003.
7. T. F. Chan, J. Cong, J. Shinnerl and K. Sze, "An Enhanced Multilevel Algorithm for Circut Placement," Pros. IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design, San Jose, California, pp. 299--306, November, 2003..
8. Jason Cong, Tim Kong, Joseph R. Shinnerl, Min Xie, and Xin Yuan. “Large-Scale Circuit Placement: Gap and Promise,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, pp. 883--890, November, 2003.
9. Jason Cong, Gabriele Nataneli, Michail Romesis, and Joseph R. Shinnerl, “An Area-Optimality Study of Floorplanning,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physical Design, pp. 78--83, April, 2004.
10. Tony F. Chan, Jason Cong, and Kenton Sze, “ Multilevel Generalized Force-Directed Method for Circuit Placement ,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physical Design , pp. 185--192, April, 2005. (Best Paper Award)
11. J. Cong, M. Romesis and J. Shinnerl, “ Robust Mixed-Size Placement Under Tight White-Space Constraints ,” Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design , San Jose, California, pp. 165-172, November 2005.
12. J. Cong and Min Xie, “ A Robust Detailed Placement for Mixed-Size IC Designs ,” Proceedings of the 11th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2006) , pp. 188-194, January 2006.
Technical Reports
1. T. Kong and J. Shinnerl, "Implementing Lanczos-Based Preconditioned Modified Conjugate Gradients," UCLA Computer Science Department TR 010037, November, 2001.
2. T. Kong, “An Adaptation of the Fast Multipole Method to a Nonanalytic Potential Field for Overlapping Disks in the Plane,” UCLA Computer Science Department TR 010038, November, 2001
3. J. Shinnerl, “A Theorem on Partitioning a Sorted List of Numbers with an Application to VLSI Floorplanning,” UCLA Computer Science Department TR 040006, February, 2004.
Sponsors
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