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1 Chuck Alpert Design Productivity Group Austin Research Laboratory
Placement: Hot or Not Chuck Alpert Design Productivity Group Austin Research Laboratory

2 The State of Placement Placement is an old problem
Rajeev: Today, the EDA academic community is not producing a lot of new ideas. Yes, at one time they did, but not today. “Lou Scheffer” : place-and-route is in reasonable shape

3 Placement Trends (my guess, not scientific)
2010 2012 Chip gate count: 21 M Largest Block: 1.5 M Chip gate count: 76 M Largest Block: 3.7 M

4 Placement is Hot Design sizes are exploding
Designers are embracing automation like never before Secondary factors (power, area) become differentiating Wirelength is no longer primary Congestion Timing Power Clock-friendly

5 Generic Design Flow From Cadence

6 Vt Optimization? Swap to lower vt

7 Gate Sizing or Repowering
b f e c a d a c e d b f

8 Buffering and Layer Assignment

9 Inverter Absorption / Decomposition
f e c a d a e g f b

10 Composition / Decomposition
w Out x w AOI nd2 B x Out nd2 A y nd2 C y nd2 C z z D D Courtesy: Louise Trevillian, founder of Logic Synthesis

11 Example Timing Closure “Optimization”
Critical Path Optimization While 500 most critical nets still optimizable Gate sizing and vt Optimization Buffering on sub-tree Buffering on entire tree Congestion-aware layer assignment Suite of logic transforms Compression Optimization For remaining critical nets Gate sizing and vt Optimization Buffering, layer assignment on sub-tree

12 What Timing-Driven Placement Means
Synthesis Traditional Placement Optimization Set Net Weights Timing-driven Placement Weight all nets? If not, what percent? What weight range? What netlist state for timing-driven placement?

13 Over Weight Can Destroy Congestion
Initial After Timing-driven Placement Optimization Placement

14 Don’t Put Timing into Placement!
Timing-driven Placement Flow Placement Timing Easy Constraints Placement Incremental Placement Constraint Generation Timing

15 Example Incremental Timing-Driven Placement
Initial Final

16 Techniques Required for Timing-Driven Placement
Identification of “easy” constraints Incremental Placement Shorten critical paths without hurting other paths Fast, incremental wirelength recovery Congestion-preserving detailed placement (don’t pack!) Getting pipeline latches right Meaningful timing model Interleave optimization (e.g., layer assignment)

17 Pipeline Latch Placement

18 Pipeline Latch Placement

19 Interference From Other Logic

20 Power-Aware Placement
#nets Switching Factor

21 Congestion Still Huge Problem
Contests focus on congestion-driven placement Also need for incremental congestion repair Fast, accurate congestion modeling is key Placement A Placement B Router 1 Placement A Placement B Router 2

22 Placement Density Reasonable First Order

23 Local Congestion Effects (Pin Density)
Before Spreading After Spreading Sc1 Plot with Stats

24 Handling Movebounds

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26 Move Bound Challenges Don’t increase runtime
High density / low density Inclusive or exclusive OverlappingSoft or absolute Different shapes Support high quantity

27 Datapath Placement Base Run Soft Alignment Forced Alignment
net1 ( Fixed pins Datapath Placement LEGAL HPWL = LEGAL HPWL = LEGAL HPWL = Base Run Soft Alignment Forced Alignment Courtesy: Sam Ward

28 Latch Huddling: Good For Clock Skew and Power
July 26, 2012

29 Why Huddling is Good for Clocks
More Clock Wire Less Clock Wire

30 All Object Movement (Before and After Huddling)
(in tracks) 500+ Global Huddling Placement Incremental Huddling Placement

31 Global Clock Trees Challenge, can we separate three trees to prevent routing overlap?

32 Proposed Placement Framework
Keep placement as a stand alone optimization Enrich it to handle constraints Add constraint generation step to guide placement Move bounds Power Switching factors Tightness of latch huddles Clock domain separation Use of hierarchical name space Alignment of datapath

33 Proposed Placement Flow
Pre-Placement Constraints Placement (Global or Incremental) Clock Analysis Congestion Analysis Power Analysis Timing Analysis Constraint Generation

34 Do We Need to Write a Placer from Scratch?
Clustering Clustered Global Flat Global Pin-Density Spreading Density Spreading Fast Congestion Analysis Congestion Mitigation Congestion-aware Detailed Placement Power Reduction

35 Chasing the Hot Topics Instead of trying to predict the next important problem Just ask (a designer)


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