IC Compiler II: Finding The Best Floorplan, Fast


As designers strive to pack more and more functionality into todays’ SoC’s, design size (in terms of the number of transistors packed into a chip) is growing almost exponentially. This growth brings with it an unbounded increase in not just the technical complexity of performing the physical layout of the design due to capacity challenges, but also requires designers to make choices that ca... » read more

A Performance-Aware Framework For Co-Optimizing Floorplan And Performance Of Chiplet-Based Architecture


A technical paper titled “Floorplet: Performance-aware Floorplan Framework for Chiplet Integration” was published by researchers at Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of California Berkeley. Abstract: "A chiplet is an integrated circuit that encompasses a well-defined subset of an overall system's functionality. In contrast to traditional monolithic system-on-chips (SoCs),... » read more