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With the increasing sophistication of circuits and specifically in the presence of IP blocks, new estimation methods are needed in the design flow of large-scale circuits. Up to now, a number of post-placement congestion estimation techniques in the presence of IP blocks have been presented.In this paper we present a unified approach for predicting wirelength, congestion and delay parameters early in the design flow. We also propose a methodology to integrate these prediction methods into the placement framework to handle the large complexity of the designs.

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In this paper, we develop a mixed-size placement tool, Dragon2006, to solve large scale placement problems effectively. A top-down hierarchical approach based on min-cut partitioning and simulated annealing is used to place very large SoC-style designs containing fixed blockage, movable macro blocks of various sizes and standard cells. Moreover, we have applied several techniques for wirelength optimization, congestion estimation in the presence of blockage and white space allocation for congestion removal.