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
| Placement |
Pos Mask t |
Wire Mask t |
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| View Mask |
Pos Mask t+1 |
Wire Mask t+1 |
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Standard Cell Placement
| adaptec2 |
adaptec4 |
bigblue3 |
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Full Benchmark demonstration
| Benchmark |
DREAMPlace |
Graph |
DeepPR |
MaskPlace |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |