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Macro Placement - benchmarks, evaluators, and reproducible results from leading methods in open source
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How to involved (use) Force-directed placement after get training plc & pb? #43

Open diaoerlie opened 1 year ago

diaoerlie commented 1 year ago

Hi,

  1. I am wondering how to use fd_placement.py , what is the input of this python? (A trained plc & pb / A plc & pb just transform from def).
  2. from the blog , i think FDP is a coarse placement result of standard cell (how to evaluation wirelength). But can it (FPD result + macro placement result) be the input of the comerical EDA backend tools? since it maintain the grouping information ...
diaoerlie commented 1 year ago

thanks you so much for those verbose question