A tight area upper bound for slicing floorplans

The ability to perform reliable early estimation is essential to support early design space exploration. In this paper we present a tight upper bound for the area of slicing floorplans. The proposed formulation outperforms the best known bounds on a set of practical/realistic floorplanning scenarios. Previous work has shown that slicing floorplans can be quite efficient in packing modules tightly, and thus the relevance of our proposed area estimate