Sequential Nonlinear-Programming Approach to Thermal-Aware VLSI Floorplanning using Multi-boundary Shapes
In this paper we develop and implement sequential nonlinear-programming methods for solving the thermal-aware soft-macro VLSI floorplanning problem with IO-block placement and a dynamic floorplan-boundary. We develop a multi-stage nonlinear-programming approach to this floorplanning problem. We break the floorplanning process into two main stages, a simplified first-stage, which omits any consideration of the floorplan boundary … Read more