• DocumentCode
    1959454
  • Title

    An improved objective function for mincut circuit partitioning

  • Author

    Sechen, C. ; Chen, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA
  • fYear
    1988
  • fDate
    7-10 Nov. 1988
  • Firstpage
    502
  • Lastpage
    505
  • Abstract
    An improved objective function has been added to the Kernighan-Lin (1970), Fiduccia-Mattheyses (1982) (KLFM) partitioning algorithm. The time complexity of the enhanced KLFM algorithm remains linear in the number of pins, and there is essentially no change in the CPU time requirements. Based on circuit bipartitioning tests with ten industrial circuits, the number of nets cut was reduced by as much as 55% with the new objective function. The average reduction in nets cut was 38%.<>
  • Keywords
    circuit layout CAD; computational complexity; CPU time requirements; KLFM partitioning algorithm; circuit bipartitioning tests; min-cut partitioning; mincut circuit partitioning; objective function; time complexity; Central Processing Unit; Circuit testing; Integrated circuit interconnections; Pins; Read only memory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer-Aided Design, 1988. ICCAD-88. Digest of Technical Papers., IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Santa Clara, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-0869-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCAD.1988.122558
  • Filename
    122558