Assessing Swapping Policies as a Detailed Placement Approach

Detailed placement plays a crucial role in the physical design of integrated circuits, impacting factors such as area, power consumption, and performance. Swap-based placement algorithms have gained significant attention in recent years due to their effectiveness in improving the quality of placement solutions. This paper presents a comprehensive study of swap-based detailed placement algorithms for standard cell design, highlighting their principles, advantages, challenges, and recent advancements. In this paper we present results of swap-based algorithms, using different approaches for standard cells selection and how these affect the final solution.