Mark Jones

Publications (2)0 Total impact

• Article: An improved simulated annealing algorithm for standard cell placement

  Mark Jones, Prithviraj Banerjee
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  ABSTRACT: Simulated annealing is a general purpose Monte Carlo optimization technique that was applied to the problem of placing standard logic cells in a VLSI ship so that the total interconnection wire length is minimized. An improved standard cell placement algorithm that takes advantage of the performance enhancements that appear to come from parallelizing the uniprocessor simulated annealing algorithm is presented. An outline of this algorithm is given.
  02/1988;
• Article: Performance of a parallel algorithm for standard cell placement on the Intel Hypercube

  Mark Jones, Prithviraj Banerjee
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  ABSTRACT: A parallel simulated annealing algorithm for standard cell placement that is targeted to run on the Intel Hypercube is presented. A tree broadcasting strategy that is used extensively in our algorithm for updating cell locations in the parallel environment is presented. Studies on the performance of our algorithm on example industrial circuits show that it is faster and gives better final placement results than the uniprocessor simulated annealing algorithms.
  12/1987;