| FastPlace: Efficient analytical placement using cell shifting, iterative local refinement, and a hybrid net model N Viswanathan, CCN Chu IEEE Transactions Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems …, 2005 | 367 | 2005 |
| An efficient and effective detailed placement algorithm M Pan, N Viswanathan, C Chu 2005 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 48-55, 2005 | 215 | 2005 |
| Fastplace 3.0: A fast multilevel quadratic placement algorithm with placement congestion control N Viswanathan, M Pan, C Chu 2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 135-140, 2007 | 209 | 2007 |
| The ISPD-2011 routability-driven placement contest and benchmark suite N Viswanathan, CJ Alpert, C Sze, Z Li, GJ Nam, JA Roy 2011 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design, 141-146, 2011 | 115 | 2011 |
| The DAC 2012 Routability-driven placement contest and benchmark suite N Viswanathan, C Alpert, C Sze, Z Li, Y Wei 49th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2012, 774-782, 2012 | 106 | 2012 |
| MAPLE: Multilevel Adaptive PLacEment for Mixed-Size Designs MC Kim, N Viswanathan, CJ Alpert, IL Markov, S Ramji 2012 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design, 193-200, 2012 | 98 | 2012 |
| New placement prediction and mitigation techniques for local routing congestion T Taghavi, Z Li, C Alpert, GJ Nam, A Huber, S Ramji, L Reddy, J Roy, ... 2010 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 621-624, 2010 | 96 | 2010 |
| GLARE: Global and local wiring aware routability evaluation Y Wei, C Sze, N Viswanathan, Z Li, CJ Alpert, L Reddy, AD Huber, ... 49th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2012, 768-773, 2012 | 93 | 2012 |
| RQL: Global placement via relaxed quadratic spreading and linearization N Viswanathan, GJ Nam, CJ Alpert, P Villarrubia, H Ren, C Chu 44th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2007, 453-458, 2007 | 89 | 2007 |
| ICCAD-2015 CAD Contest in Incremental Timing-driven Placement and Benchmark Suite MC Kim, J Hu, J Li, N Viswanathan Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided …, 2015 | 80 | 2015 |
| ICCAD-2014 CAD contest in incremental timing-driven placement and benchmark suite MC Kim, J Hu, N Viswanathan Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided …, 2014 | 80 | 2014 |
| MrDP: Multiple-row detailed placement of heterogeneous-sized cells for advanced nodes Y Lin, B Yu, X Xu, JR Gao, N Viswanathan, WH Liu, Z Li, CJ Alpert, ... Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on, 1-8, 2016 | 59 | 2016 |
| CRISP: Congestion reduction by iterated spreading during placement JA Roy, N Viswanathan, GJ Nam, CJ Alpert, IL Markov 2009 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 357-362, 2009 | 59 | 2009 |
| Handling complexities in modern large-scale mixed-size placement JZ Yan, N Viswanathan, C Chu 46th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2009, 436-441, 2009 | 50 | 2009 |
| Physical Synthesis with Clock-network Optimization for Large Systems on Chips D Papa, N Viswanathan, C Sze, Z Li, G Nam, C Alpert, I Markov IEEE Micro, 31 (4), 51-62, 2011 | 49 | 2011 |
| ICCAD-2012 CAD contest in design hierarchy aware routability-driven placement and benchmark suite N Viswanathan, C Alpert, C Sze, Z Li, Y Wei 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 345-348, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| Multi-patterning lithography aware cell placement in integrated circuit design KB Agarwal, CJ Alpert, Z Li, GJ Nam, N Viswanathan US Patent 8,495,548, 2013 | 43 | 2013 |
| Placement: Hot or Not? C Alpert, Z Li, GJ Nam, CN Sze, N Viswanathan, SI Ward 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 283-290, 2012 | 37 | 2012 |
| ITOP: Integrating timing optimization within placement N Viswanathan, GJ Nam, JA Roy, Z Li, CJ Alpert, S Ramji, C Chu 2010 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design, 83-90, 2010 | 36 | 2010 |
| Legalization of VLSI circuit placement with blockages using hierarchical row slicing CJ Alpert, MW Dotson, GJ Nam, S Ramji, N Viswanathan US Patent 7,934,188, 2011 | 33 | 2011 |
