Synthesis by simulated annealing

Summarises work proceeding towards the development of a suite of algorithmic optimisation tools intended to operate in a directed silicon compilation environment. The tools are controlled by the stochastic computational technique known as simulated annealing. The paper contains a description of the scheduling and allocation problem, together with a description of the simulated annealing algorithm. There then follows a brief discussion of results obtained thus far together with some indications of future work