place

Definition

Deciding where something goes. In chip design, placement is the stage that assigns physical locations on the die to logic cells, and it is always named alongside routing — place and route is the standard phrase for the back-end flow. It is a hard combinatorial optimisation whose objectives are wire length, timing, and congestion, and it is one of the first industrial problems where learned methods reached production use.

Explainers using this term

• Lucida, explained — turning a room video back into parts you can move, by deferring precision to the endLucida: Parse, Generate, and Place for Composable Real-to-Sim Scene Modeling