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Re:VLSI Physical Design by i_don_t_know on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:25PM (#37679936)
Can you recommend books on the algorithms used in frontend synthesis? And/or FPGA-specific algorithms?
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Re:VLSI Physical Design by UncleOxidant on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:35PM (#37680073)
Logic Synthesis And Verification Algorithms by Hachtel and Somenzi the copy I have is copyright '96, not sure if it's been updated.
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Re:VLSI Physical Design by oldgradstudent on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @08:06PM (#37683373)
It hasn't been updated.

The book is considerably out of date, but a lot of the concepts and definitions are still relevant.

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Re:VLSI Physical Design by xw3099 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @09:18PM (#37683957)
This deck has a great introduction to mapping and the references at the end are more up to date

https://www.eng.biu.ac.il/temanad/files/2018/11/Lecture-4-Sy...

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Re:VLSI Physical Design by oldgradstudent on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:10AM (#37690703)
Similarly out of date.

A good starting point for more modern techniques would be something like this:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alanmi/publications/2006/t...

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Re:VLSI Physical Design by i_don_t_know on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:10AM (#37703643)
I came across this survey paper on Combinatorial Optimization in VLSI Design: https://www.or.uni-bonn.de/research/montreal.pdf

I don't know how up-to-date the information is. Two of the authors (Korte, Vygen) wrote a textbook on combinatorial optimization. I haven't read it and I don't know enough about the subject to be able to say how useful the contents are to VLSI design. I think they focus more on the theory than the application: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-56039-6

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