Algorithm for VLSI chip floor plan

Abstract
An algorithm for a VLSI chip floor plan is presented. It uses initial block placement obtained by the AR (attractive and repulsive force) method, and performs iterative block packing by gradually moving and reshaping blocks with chip boundary shrinking. By the use of several types of experimental data, it is shown that the method is very effective for handling various types of blocks and is well suited to interactive chip layout design.

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