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Session 10: The ISPD2005 Placement Contest. Outline. Benchmark & Contest Introduction Individual placement presentation FastPlace, Capo, mPL, FengShui, APlace, NTUPlace, mFAR, Kraftwerk&Domino, Dragon2005 Result Announcement Conclusion & Future Work.
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Outline • Benchmark & Contest Introduction • Individual placement presentation • FastPlace, Capo, mPL, FengShui, APlace, NTUPlace, mFAR, Kraftwerk&Domino, Dragon2005 • Result Announcement • Conclusion & Future Work
The ISPD2005 Placement Contest and Benchmark Suite Gi-Joon Nam, Charles J. Alpert, Paul G. Villarrubia, Bruce Winter and Mehmet Yildiz IBM Corp.
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
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
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
Contest Timeline • Jan. 12: Sample benchmarks released • Mar. 20: Contest benchmarks posted • Mar. 25: Solution submission due • Apr. 6: Results announcement
Outline • Benchmark & Contest Introduction • Individual placement presentation • FastPlace, Capo, mPL, FengShui, APlace, NTUPlace, mFAR, Kraftwerk&Domino, Dragon2005 • Result Announcement • Conclusion & Future Work
Conclusions & Future Works • New placement benchmark suite ISPD2005 • ISPD2005 Placement Contest • Better quality metrics for future contest • Routability & congestion