Floorplanning Design Flow

Place I/Os

Prepare Library

Initialize Floorplan

Partition Design

Place Blocks

Analyze Floorplan

Adjust Floorplan

Traditional physical environment :

flatten design to get optimized floorplan and route

- a simple logical change ? large physical change

Floorplan Objects :

? group : logically connected

cell instances

? region : to restrict placement

? soft block : create a discrete

physical unit

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