A unified placement algorithm to improve both performance and area through sliceable partitions

A new placement approach integrating the legal placement arrangement into a combined method of global placement and constrained partitioning for simultaneous optimization of performance and area aspects based on slicing enumeration is presented. With the proposed placement approach the partitioning is constrained to sliceable partitions. This allows the control of critical nets and ensures legal placements simultaneously. Computation times of the algorithm for practical problems are proven to be of practical use.