3.8 KiB
3.8 KiB
MaskPlace: Fast Chip Placement via Reinforced Visual Representation Learning
A new chip placement method based on visual representation learning.
The placement process animation
Benchmark: Bigblue3
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| View Mask | Pos Mask t+1 | Wire Mask t+1 |
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Standard Cell Placement
Fix macros and use DREAMPlace (classic optimization-based method) to place standard cells.
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Full Benchmark demonstration
| Benchmark | DREAMPlace | Graph | DeepPR | MaskPlace |
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| adaptec1 |  |
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| HPWL (105) | 17.94 | 26.05 | 21.36 | 6.57 |
| Wirel (105) | 19.24 | 28.54 | 25.64 | 7.36 |
| Overlap | 0.34% | 1.89% | 32.03% | 0 |
| adaptec2 |  |
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| HPWL (105) | 135.32 | 359.35 | 197.13 | 79.98 |
| Wirel (105) | 140.91 | 381.64 | 205.78 | 83.59 |
| Overlap | 0.16% | 1.54% | 49.10% | 0 |
| adaptec3 |  |
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| HPWL (105) | 112.28 | 392.66 | 340.29 | 79.33 |
| Wirel (105) | 119.23 | 409.37 | 372.02 | 85.28 |
| Overlap | 0 | 1.26% | 29.10% | 0 |
| adaptec4 |  |
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| HPWL (105) | 37.77 | 152.89 | 243.12 | 75.75 |
| Wirel (105) | 47.90 | 179.43 | 290.14 | 88.87 |
| Overlap | 0 | 7.43% | 19.29% | 0 |
| bigblue1 |  |
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| HPWL (105) | 2.50 | 8.32 | 20.49 | 2.42 |
| Wirel (105) | 3.41 | 10.00 | 25.68 | 3.14 |
| Overlap | 0 | 2.48% | 9.33% | 0 |
| bigblue3 |  |
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| HPWL (105) | 104.05 | 345.49 | 439.09 | 82.61 |
| Wirel (105) | 107.58 | 373.33 | 517.86 | 88.51 |
| Overlap | 8.06% | 0.80% | 85.23% | 0 |
| ariane |  |
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| HPWL (105) | 20.30 | 16.83 | 51.43 | 14.86 |
| Wirel (105) | 21.72 | 18.48 | 55.85 | 15.80 |
| Overlap | 0.78% | 3.72% | 38.91% | 1.94% |