Research Article

Fine Control of Local Whitespace in Placement

Table 4

HPWL improvement due to flow-based whitespace redistribution on the ICCAD 2004 IBM-MSwPins mixed-size benchmarks [27]. On average, the flows are able to reallocate whitespace and improve HPWL by nearly 3% while scaling well with increasing quantities of movable objects.

Benchmark # MovablesRuntime (s)Improvement

ibm0112506112.41%
ibm0219342232.60%
ibm0322853273.81%
ibm0427220382.96%
ibm0528146462.27%
ibm0632332442.87%
ibm0745639693.17%
ibm0851023642.82%
ibm0953110694.23%
ibm10686851291.91%
ibm11701521024.42%
ibm12704391351.87%
ibm13837091273.83%
ibm141470882622.64%
ibm151611873423.67%
ibm161829804042.62%
ibm171847524462.54%
ibm182103413382.47%

Average2.86%