Instructor: Mustafa Ozdal (EA-420)
Textbook: A. B. Kahng, J.
Lienig, I. Markov, J. Hu, "VLSI
Physical Design: From Graph Partitioning to Timing Closure"
Reference book: C. J. Alpert, D. P. Mehta, S. S. Sapatnekar,
"Handbook
of Algorithms for Physical Design Automation"
Schedule: Tue. 10:40-12:30, Fri. 9:40-10:30 (EA502)
Syllabus: syllabus.pdf
Announcements:
· 15/9/2015: The call for participation for ISPD-16 contest has
been posted at: http://www.ispd.cc/contests/16/ispd2016_contest.html.
You can choose this topic as your class project, and then decide whether to
participate in the contest by mid-December.
Lectures
Note: Some lecture notes provided below contain slides copied from the course textbook. Some
of those slides have been modified for the purpose of this class. The original
slides from the textbook can be accessed here.
Lecture 1: Course Overview (ppt,
pdf)
Lecture 2: Background and
Introduction (ppt, pdf)
Lecture 3: Partitioning (ppt, pdf)
Lecture
4: Floorplanning (ppt, pdf)
Lecture 5: Placement (ppt, pdf)
Lecture 6: Routing Topology
Generation (ppt, pdf)
Lecture 7: Global Routing (ppt, pdf)
Lecture 8: Network Flow (ppt, pdf)