Natarajan Viswanathan

Samuel I. Ward, Myung-Chul Kim, Natarajan Viswanathan, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert, Earl E. Swartzlander Jr., David Z. Pan: Structure-Aware Placement Techniques for Designs With Datapaths. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 32(2): 228-241 (2013)

Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert, Gi-Joon Nam, Cliff C. N. Sze, Natarajan Viswanathan, Nancy Y. Zhou: Guiding a physical design closure system to produce easier-to-route designs with more predictable timing. DAC 2012: 465-470

Yaoguang Wei, Cliff C. N. Sze, Natarajan Viswanathan, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert, Lakshmi N. Reddy, Andrew D. Huber, Gustavo E. Téllez, Douglas Keller, Sachin S. Sapatnekar: GLARE: global and local wiring aware routability evaluation. DAC 2012: 768-773

Natarajan Viswanathan, Charles J. Alpert, Cliff C. N. Sze, Zhuo Li, Yaoguang Wei: The DAC 2012 routability-driven placement contest and benchmark suite. DAC 2012: 774-782

Charles J. Alpert, Zhuo Li, Gi-Joon Nam, Chin Ngai Sze, Natarajan Viswanathan, Samuel I. Ward: Placement: Hot or Not? ICCAD 2012: 283-290

Natarajan Viswanathan, Charles J. Alpert, Cliff C. N. Sze, Zhuo Li, Yaoguang Wei: ICCAD-2012 CAD contest in design hierarchy aware routability-driven placement and benchmark suite. ICCAD 2012: 345-348

Samuel I. Ward, Myung-Chul Kim, Natarajan Viswanathan, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert, Earl E. Swartzlander Jr., David Z. Pan: Keep it straight: teaching placement how to better handle designs with datapaths. ISPD 2012: 79-86

Myung-Chul Kim, Natarajan Viswanathan, Charles J. Alpert, Igor L. Markov, Shyam Ramji: MAPLE: multilevel adaptive placement for mixed-size designs. ISPD 2012: 193-200

David A. Papa, Charles J. Alpert, Cliff C. N. Sze, Zhuo Li, Natarajan Viswanathan, Gi-Joon Nam, Igor L. Markov: Physical Synthesis with Clock-Network Optimization for Large Systems on Chips. IEEE Micro 31(4): 51-62 (2011)

Natarajan Viswanathan, Charles J. Alpert, Cliff C. N. Sze, Zhuo Li, Gi-Joon Nam, Jarrod A. Roy: The ISPD-2011 routability-driven placement contest and benchmark suite. ISPD 2011: 141-146

Yi-Lin Chuang, Gi-Joon Nam, Charles J. Alpert, Yao-Wen Chang, Jarrod A. Roy, Natarajan Viswanathan: Design-hierarchy aware mixed-size placement for routability optimization. ICCAD 2010: 663-668

Natarajan Viswanathan, Gi-Joon Nam, Jarrod A. Roy, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert, Shyam Ramji, Chris Chu: ITOP: integrating timing optimization within placement. ISPD 2010: 83-90

Jackey Z. Yan, Natarajan Viswanathan, Chris Chu: Handling complexities in modern large-scale mixed-size placement. DAC 2009: 436-441

Jarrod A. Roy, Natarajan Viswanathan, Gi-Joon Nam, Charles J. Alpert, Igor L. Markov: CRISP: Congestion reduction by iterated spreading during placement. ICCAD 2009: 357-362

Natarajan Viswanathan, Min Pan, Chris C. N. Chu: FastPlace 3.0: A Fast Multilevel Quadratic Placement Algorithm with Placement Congestion Control. ASP-DAC 2007: 135-140

Natarajan Viswanathan, Gi-Joon Nam, Charles J. Alpert, Paul Villarrubia, Haoxing Ren, Chris C. N. Chu: RQL: Global Placement via Relaxed Quadratic Spreading and Linearization. DAC 2007: 453-458

Natarajan Viswanathan, Min Pan, Chris C. N. Chu: FastPlace 2.0: an efficient analytical placer for mixed-mode designs. ASP-DAC 2006: 195-200

Natarajan Viswanathan, Chris C. N. Chu: FastPlace: efficient analytical placement using cell shifting, iterative local refinement, and a hybrid net model. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 24(5): 722-733 (2005)

Min Pan, Natarajan Viswanathan, Chris C. N. Chu: An efficient and effective detailed placement algorithm. ICCAD 2005: 48-55

Natarajan Viswanathan, Min Pan, Chris C. N. Chu: FastPlace: an analytical placer for mixed-mode designs. ISPD 2005: 221-223

Natarajan Viswanathan, Chris C. N. Chu: FastPlace: efficient analytical placement using cell shifting, iterative local refinement and a hybrid net model. ISPD 2004: 26-33