ML-Germinal: A new heuristic standard cell placement algorithm

摘要

The authors point out that the main advantage of the proposednmultilevel placement algorithm ML-Germinal is a high convergence speed.nIt is based solely on the Dynamic Clouds Method. When compared withnTimberWolfSC-4.2, the method improves the wiring cost by 18% andndecreases the CPU time by a factor of 36 to 108 times. A second versionnyields wiring costs smaller than TimberWolf by 21%