Modern designs often contain a combination of a large number of standard cells and macro blocks. Traditionally large macro blocks are handled at the floorplanning level, after which their positions are fixed. The standard cells are then handled during the placement level. Current designs can have hundreds of large and medium sized macro blocks and a large number of standard cells. As a result, traditional floorplanning techniques cannot scale to this problem, both in terms of runtime and solution quality. Hence a technique is required to simultaneously handle this combination of placeable objects.In this paper, we present a combined placement and floorplanning approach for mixed-mode placement. We extend the efficient analytical placement algorithm FastPlace by integrating a simulated annealing based floorplanner to solve the global placement problem for mixed-mode designs. We also present an efficient and effective detailed placement algorithm to improve the wirelength of the global placement solution based on a greedy swapping heuristic.
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