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Tips For Macro Placement

1. Place macros around the chip periphery to avoid detour routing inside the core area and make power supply and preventing IR drop issues easier. 2. Consider connections to fixed cells like I/O when placing macros and orient macros to minimize the distance between pins to reduce routing complexity. 3. Reserve enough space around macros for regular net routing and power grid and reduce open fields as much as possible to maximize the area for random logic while estimating routing resources precisely.

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Tips For Macro Placement

1. Place macros around the chip periphery to avoid detour routing inside the core area and make power supply and preventing IR drop issues easier. 2. Consider connections to fixed cells like I/O when placing macros and orient macros to minimize the distance between pins to reduce routing complexity. 3. Reserve enough space around macros for regular net routing and power grid and reduce open fields as much as possible to maximize the area for random logic while estimating routing resources precisely.

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Tips for macro Placement /Floorplanning :

1. Place macros around chip periphery.


If you don’t have reasonable rationale to place the macro inside the core area,
then place macros around the chip periphery. Placing a macro inside the core can
invite serious consequence during routing due to a lot of detour routing, because
macros are equal to a large obstacle for routing. Another advantage to placing the
hard macros around the core periphery is it's easier to supply power to them, and
reduces the change of IR drop problems to macros consuming high amounts of
power.
2. Consider connections to fixed cells when placing macros.
When you decide macro position, you have to pay attention to connections to
fixed elements such as I/O and perplaced macros. Place macros near their
associate fixed element. Check connections by displaying flight lines in the GUI.
3. Orient macros to minimize distance between pins.
When you decide the orientation of macros, you also have to take account of pins
positions and their connections.
4. Reserve enough room around macros.
For regular net routing and power grid, you have to reserve enough routing space
around macros. In this case estimating routing resources with precision is very
important. Use the congestion map from trialRoute to identify hot spots between
macros and adjust their placement as needed.
5. Reduce open fields as much as possible.
Except for reserved routing resources, remove dead space to increase the area for
random logic. Choosing different aspect ratio (if that option is available) can
eliminate open fields.
6. Reserve space for power grid.
The number of power routes required can change based on power consumption.
You have to estimate the power consumption and reserve enough room for the
power grid. If you underestimate the space required for power routing, you can
encounter routing problems.

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