Neural network based approach to standard cell placement

Proposes a novel algorithm for placement of standard cells in VLSI circuits base don an analogy of this problem with neural networks. By employing some of the organising principles of these nets, the authors have attempted to improve the behaviour of the bipartitioning method as proposed by Kernighan and Lin. Their algorithm yields better quality placements compared with the above method, and also makes the final placement independent of the initial partition.