Incremental Timing-Driven Placement With Approximated Signoff Wire Delay and Regression-Based Cell Delay.

Satisfying timing requirements is the most challenging phase of the modern complex system-on-chip (SOC) design. The timing closure of the static timing analysis (STA) is a necessary but time-consuming stage before tapeout. Physical design tools are normally ineffective in obtaining accurate timing estimates, so the accurate timing calculation must be conducted in the signoff level timer after each...