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ISPD 2005 Placement Contest & Benchmark Suite Overview

Explore the ISPD 2005 Placement Contest with real ASIC designs and various placement tools like FastPlace, Capo, FengShui, and more. Discover the goals of the contest, its format, timeline, and wire-length results analysis. Enhance your understanding of state-of-the-art placement algorithms and the impact on wire lengths. Uncover the conclusions drawn from ISPD2005 and the roadmap for future contest improvements.

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ISPD 2005 Placement Contest & Benchmark Suite Overview

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  1. Session 10:The ISPD2005 Placement Contest

  2. Outline • Benchmark & Contest Introduction • Individual placement presentation • FastPlace, Capo, mPL, FengShui, APlace, NTUPlace, mFAR, Kraftwerk&Domino, Dragon2005 • Result Announcement • Conclusion & Future Work

  3. The ISPD2005 Placement Contest and Benchmark Suite Gi-Joon Nam, Charles J. Alpert, Paul G. Villarrubia, Bruce Winter and Mehmet Yildiz IBM Corp.

  4. ISPD 2005 Placement Benchmark Suite

  5. ISPD 2005 Placement Benchmark Suite

  6. ISPD 2005 Placement Benchmark Suite

  7. ISPD 2005 Placement Benchmark Suite • Real industrial ASIC designs • Free space • 54% - 85% • Affects wire-length significantly • Macros • Wider distribution of cell sizes • I/Os: perimeter and area array I/Os • Various row configuration • Clock logic included

  8. ISPD 2005 Placement Contest • Open contest primarily for academic physical design community • Covers majority of placement tools • FastPlace, Capo, mPL, FengShui, APlace, NTUPlace, mFAR, Kraftwerk&Domino, Dragon2005 • Goals • To provide new modern placement benchmarks • To encourage to expose placement tools and results • To provide an educational forum on the state-of-the-art placement algorithms

  9. Contest Format • Each team is given 5 days to come up with the best results they can get • Fixed window of time • No limit on CPU resources • Quality metrics • Legality • Half-perimeter bounding box wire length • No timing metric • No congestion metric

  10. Contest Timeline • Jan. 12: Sample benchmarks released • Mar. 20: Contest benchmarks posted • Mar. 25: Solution submission due • Apr. 6: Results announcement

  11. Outline • Benchmark & Contest Introduction • Individual placement presentation • FastPlace, Capo, mPL, FengShui, APlace, NTUPlace, mFAR, Kraftwerk&Domino, Dragon2005 • Result Announcement • Conclusion & Future Work

  12. Wire-Length Results

  13. Conclusions & Future Works • New placement benchmark suite ISPD2005 • ISPD2005 Placement Contest • Better quality metrics for future contest • Routability & congestion

  14. adaptec2 Layout Figures

  15. adaptec2 Layout Figures

  16. adaptec2 Layout Figures

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