Mark Basel, Mentor Graphics, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070 ABSTRACT Capturing the designer¡¦s intent during floorplanning plays a critical role to improve design productivity of systems-on-chip (SoC).

So, in the VLSI design flow, Physical design plays a very important role. Floorplanning is the starting step in the physical design flow. The main concern of floorplanning is to find the appropriate ...