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Tight coupling of timing driven placement and retiming
Retiming is a widely investigated technique for performance optimization. In general, it performs extensive modifications on a circuit netlist, leaving it unclear, whether the achieved performance improvement will still be valid after placement has been performed. This paper presents an approach for integrating retiming into a timing-driven placement environment. The experimental results show the benefit of the proposed approach on circuit performance in comparison with design flows using retiming only as a pre- or postplacement optimization method
A complete design path for the layout of flexible macros
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