pre placement stage

Floorplan Strategies for Macro Dominating Blocks

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 A physical design engineer’s main focus is to achieve a decent Quality of Result (QoR) and optimized Power Performance and Area (PPA). The start of this journey begins with the Floorplan steps. What will you achieve at the end of PnR is depends on how good your floorplan is. In case of a macro dominating … Read more

Pre-placement Activities in Physical Design

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 In a broader sense, PnR (Place and Route) stage in physical design is basically Placement and Routing of all the instances present in the netlist in a defined core area in such a way that it should meet design rules and timing requirements. But before starting the actual automatic placement of instances by the PnR … Read more