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Auteurs principaux: Liu, Chen, Kong, Hongxin, Feng, Lang, Qian, Wenchao, Li, Wuxi
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16357
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author Liu, Chen
Kong, Hongxin
Feng, Lang
Qian, Wenchao
Li, Wuxi
author_facet Liu, Chen
Kong, Hongxin
Feng, Lang
Qian, Wenchao
Li, Wuxi
contents As VLSI designs grow in complexity, partitioning is widely adopted to accelerate physical design through parallel computing. However, traditional hypergraph partitioning methods often degrade in performance when applied to 2D layouts due to spatial constraints. For routers with post-placement locations, a spatial-aware partitioning method fully utilizing placement data is preferable. Existing works can only consider soft spatial constraints, leading to a scattered distribution in one partition. We propose SAAP, an analytic partitioning algorithm enforcing hard spatial constraints while efficiently minimizing cut sizes. It includes analytic boundary modeling with regularity-guided simulated annealing and region embedding. Given placed netlists, it generates timing-friendly k-way spatially continuous partitions for parallel routing. Experiments show that it can quickly provide several to dozens of times smaller spatial cut sizes than previous state-of-the-art, with better spatial continuity.
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spellingShingle SAAP: An Efficient Spatial-Aware Analytic Partitioning Algorithm of VLSI Netlists for Parallel Routing
Liu, Chen
Kong, Hongxin
Feng, Lang
Qian, Wenchao
Li, Wuxi
Emerging Technologies
As VLSI designs grow in complexity, partitioning is widely adopted to accelerate physical design through parallel computing. However, traditional hypergraph partitioning methods often degrade in performance when applied to 2D layouts due to spatial constraints. For routers with post-placement locations, a spatial-aware partitioning method fully utilizing placement data is preferable. Existing works can only consider soft spatial constraints, leading to a scattered distribution in one partition. We propose SAAP, an analytic partitioning algorithm enforcing hard spatial constraints while efficiently minimizing cut sizes. It includes analytic boundary modeling with regularity-guided simulated annealing and region embedding. Given placed netlists, it generates timing-friendly k-way spatially continuous partitions for parallel routing. Experiments show that it can quickly provide several to dozens of times smaller spatial cut sizes than previous state-of-the-art, with better spatial continuity.
title SAAP: An Efficient Spatial-Aware Analytic Partitioning Algorithm of VLSI Netlists for Parallel Routing
topic Emerging Technologies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16357