Development of a force directed module placement tool

Samaranayake, Meththa, Ji, Helen and Ainscough, John (2009) Development of a force directed module placement tool. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Abstract

This paper presents the idea of using a combination of force-directed graph drawing algorithms for the basis of a module placement tool. Even with the increase of usage of modules within designs, the industry holds a gap for module placement tools. Direct experimentation has shown that comparable placement topologies were achieved by the force-directed algorithms to that of current academic placement tools.