Summary
International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications
2008
Session Number:D4
Session:
Number:D4-4
On Objective Functions for Fixed-Outline Floorplanning
Lu Wang, Xiaolin Zhang, Song Chen, Takeshi Yoshimura,
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Publication Date:2008/7/7
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Fixed-outline floorplanning enables multilevel hierarchical design, where aspect ratios and area of floorplans are usually imposed by higher level floorplanning and must be satisfied. Simulated Annealing is widely used in the floorplanning problem. It is well-known that the solution space, solution perturbation, and objective function are very important for Simulated Annealing. In this paper, we focus on the objective functions used in FOFP problem. Up to now, many kinds of objective functions were proposed in the existing researches, but those objective functions had many limitations, and the applicable situation is not clearly. We summarize and analyze the existing objective functions used in Fixed-Outline floorplanning methods, and then suggest some new objective functions respectively used in the fixed-oultine floorplanning with and without wire-length optimization, respectively.