arXiv:2606. 08904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Macro placement is a fundamental step in modern chip physical design, playing a crucial role in determining the solution quality of high-dimensional combinatorial optimization problems.
By Shibing Mo, Jing Liu, Jianchu Xu, Ruilin Wu
arXiv:2510. 23472v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chip placement is a vital stage in modern chip design, and black-box optimization (BBO) has been applied to it for decades.
By Ke Xue, Ruo-Tong Chen, Rong-Xi Tan, Xi Lin, Yunqi Shi, Siyuan Xu, Mingxuan Yuan, Chao Qian
arXiv:2606. 00131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-link optimizers (PLOs) such as Propeller and BOLT have demonstrated that precise, profile-guided code layout can extract significant performance gains from heavily optimized binaries.
By Chaitanya Mamatha Ananda, Rajiv Gupta, Mircea Trofin, Aiden Grossman, Sriraman Tallam, Xinliang David Li, Amir Yazdanbakhsh
arXiv:2608. 13790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Macro placement significantly affects a chip's post-route performance, power, and area (PPA).
By Ruogu Chen, Jie Han
arXiv:2604. 23658v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chip placement plays an important role in physical design.
By Peng Xie, Ke Xue, Yunqi Shi, Ruo-Tong Chen, Chengrui Gao, Siyuan Xu, Chenjian Ding, Mingxuan Yuan, Chao Qian
arXiv:2608. 08344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Permutation optimization arises whenever the components of a system are fixed but their ordering affects performance.
By Blessings Mambwe