Abstract
The standard-cell placement problem has drawn great attention in the VLSI CAD domain. Being an NP complete problem, a spacious range of heuristic approaches exist in the literature for expeditiously organising the circuit elements on a VLSI chip design. The advancement in the partitioning algorithms has made the recursive bisection-based placement more attractive. The paper presents a metaheuristic approach based on firefly algorithm for partition-driven global standard cell placement. The algorithm is tested against circuits from the MCNC and IBM benchmark circuits and gives promising results in comparison to meta genetic approach.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 121-127 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 21 Mar 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- Firefly algorithm
- min cut
- np complete
- Partitioning
- VLSI