MaxPlace
Mixed-Size Placer, Macro Packer, and Floorplan Exploration
MaxPlace is a VLSI physical design platform supporting large-scale design netlist
A high speed cell placer and a global routing based congestion predictor are included
A high speed cell placer and a global routing based congestion predictor are included
Highlights
Features
- State-of-the-art cell placer to create cell placement efficiently and effectively
- Fast global-routing-based congestion evaluator to predict routing violation
- Compact database to handle 100+ million instance netlist
- Automatic macro placer
- Design prototyping and floorplan exploration
Features
- Support Tcl
- Support LEF cell library and liberty timing library
- Support Verilog netlist, DEF netlist and floorplan, SDC design constraints
- Support fence-region constraints
- View placement graphically of hierarchy modules and routing congestion map
- Display flight line nets among cells
- Export DEF and Tcl to exchange data with other tools
Circuit Source: iccad15_superblue1
Automatic Macro Placer
Create high quality macro placement automatically based on the state-of-the-art automatic macro placement technology
Explore quality of different design topology with high speed routability analyzer and early timing analyzer
Explore quality of different design topology with high speed routability analyzer and early timing analyzer
Highlights
- Design hierarchy awareness
- Global-routing-based routability optimization
- Various user constraints to generate flexible results
Design Floorplanner
Plan hierarchy modules for global interconnect
Dataflow awareness floorplanning to achieve better timing and routability
Dataflow awareness floorplanning to achieve better timing and routability
Highlights
- Interconnect wire length minimization
- Feedthru route minimization
- Hierarchy pin planning by global routing
- Fast early timing analysis to identify critical paths
Exploration Technology
Provide various recipes to explore trade-off among different objectives (routability, timing, density, etc.)
Automatically evaluate results and generate HTML report
Automatically evaluate results and generate HTML report
Highlights
- Reduce development cycle by exploring all possible results at once
- Recipe and configuration are flexible
- Filter solution effectively
- Generate reports with customized contents
- Provide QoR metrics (density, overflow, wirelength, TNS, etc.) and snapshots in report
Better Routability
MaxPlace can reduce 85% routing overflow on average using DAC/ICCAD 2012 benchmarks
