An efficient and effective detailed placement algorithm. - Min Pan; Natarajan Viswanathan; Chris C. N. Chu (ICCAD, 2005)

FastPlace: an analytical placer for mixed-mode designs. - Natarajan Viswanathan; Min Pan; Chris C. N. Chu (ISPD, 2005)

FastPlace: efficient analytical placement using cell shifting, iterative local refinement, and a hybrid net model. - Natarajan Viswanathan; Chris C. N. Chu (IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst., 2005)

FastPlace 2.0: an efficient analytical placer for mixed-mode designs. - Natarajan Viswanathan; Min Pan; Chris C. N. Chu (ASP-DAC, 2006)

FastPlace: An Efficient Multilevel Force-Directed Placement Algorithm. - Natarajan Viswanathan; Min Pan; Chris Chu (Modern Circuit Placement, 2007)

FastPlace 3.0: A Fast Multilevel Quadratic Placement Algorithm with Placement Congestion Control. - Natarajan Viswanathan; Min Pan; Chris C. N. Chu (ASP-DAC, 2007)

RQL: Global Placement via Relaxed Quadratic Spreading and Linearization. - Natarajan Viswanathan; Gi-Joon Nam; Charles J. Alpert; Paul Villarrubia; Haoxing Ren; Chris C. N. Chu (DAC, 2007)

Handling complexities in modern large-scale mixed-size placement. - Jackey Z. Yan; Natarajan Viswanathan; Chris Chu (DAC, 2009)

CRISP: Congestion reduction by iterated spreading during placement. - Jarrod A. Roy; Natarajan Viswanathan; Gi-Joon Nam; Charles J. Alpert; Igor L. Markov (ICCAD, 2009)

Design-hierarchy aware mixed-size placement for routability optimization. - Yi-Lin Chuang; Gi-Joon Nam; Charles J. Alpert; Yao-Wen Chang; Jarrod A. Roy; Natarajan Viswanathan (ICCAD, 2010)

ITOP: integrating timing optimization within placement. - Natarajan Viswanathan; Gi-Joon Nam; Jarrod A. Roy; Zhuo Li 001; Charles J. Alpert; Shyam Ramji; Chris Chu (ISPD, 2010)

The ISPD-2011 routability-driven placement contest and benchmark suite. - Natarajan Viswanathan; Charles J. Alpert; Cliff C. N. Sze; Zhuo Li 001; Gi-Joon Nam; Jarrod A. Roy (ISPD, 2011)

Physical Synthesis with Clock-Network Optimization for Large Systems on Chips. - David A. Papa; Charles J. Alpert; Cliff C. N. Sze; Zhuo Li 001; Natarajan Viswanathan; Gi-Joon Nam; Igor L. Markov (IEEE Micro, 2011)

Guiding a physical design closure system to produce easier-to-route designs with more predictable timing. - Zhuo Li 001; Charles J. Alpert; Gi-Joon Nam; Cliff C. N. Sze; Natarajan Viswanathan; Nancy Y. Zhou (DAC, 2012)

The DAC 2012 routability-driven placement contest and benchmark suite. - Natarajan Viswanathan; Charles J. Alpert; Cliff C. N. Sze; Zhuo Li 001; Yaoguang Wei (DAC, 2012)

GLARE: global and local wiring aware routability evaluation. - Yaoguang Wei; Cliff C. N. Sze; Natarajan Viswanathan; Zhuo Li 001; Charles J. Alpert; Lakshmi N. Reddy; Andrew D. Huber; Gustavo E. Téllez; Douglas Keller; Sachin S. Sapatnekar (DAC, 2012)

Placement: Hot or Not? - Charles J. Alpert; Zhuo Li 001; Gi-Joon Nam; Chin Ngai Sze; Natarajan Viswanathan; Samuel I. Ward (ICCAD, 2012)

ICCAD-2012 CAD contest in design hierarchy aware routability-driven placement and benchmark suite. - Natarajan Viswanathan; Charles J. Alpert; Cliff C. N. Sze; Zhuo Li 001; Yaoguang Wei (ICCAD, 2012)

MAPLE: multilevel adaptive placement for mixed-size designs. - Myung-Chul Kim; Natarajan Viswanathan; Charles J. Alpert; Igor L. Markov; Shyam Ramji (ISPD, 2012)

Keep it straight: teaching placement how to better handle designs with datapaths. - Samuel I. Ward; Myung-Chul Kim; Natarajan Viswanathan; Zhuo Li 001; Charles J. Alpert; Earl E. Swartzlander Jr.; David Z. Pan (ISPD, 2012)

Routing congestion estimation with real design constraints. - Wen-Hao Liu 001; Yaoguang Wei; Cliff C. N. Sze; Charles J. Alpert; Zhuo Li 001; Yih-Lang Li; Natarajan Viswanathan (DAC, 2013)

The overview of 2013 CAD contest at ICCAD. - Iris Hui-Ru Jiang; Zhuo Li 001; Hwei-Tseng Wang; Natarajan Viswanathan (ICCAD, 2013)

ICCAD-2013 CAD contest in placement finishing and benchmark suite. - Myung-Chul Kim; Natarajan Viswanathan; Zhuo Li 001; Charles J. Alpert (ICCAD, 2013)

Clock power minimization using structured latch templates and decision tree induction. - Samuel I. Ward; Natarajan Viswanathan; Nancy Y. Zhou; Cliff C. N. Sze; Zhuo Li 001; Charles J. Alpert; David Z. Pan (ICCAD, 2013)

Structure-Aware Placement Techniques for Designs With Datapaths. - Samuel I. Ward; Myung-Chul Kim; Natarajan Viswanathan; Zhuo Li 001; Charles J. Alpert; Earl E. Swartzlander Jr.; David Z. Pan (IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst., 2013)

The overview of 2014 CAD contest at ICCAD. - Iris Hui-Ru Jiang; Natarajan Viswanathan; Tai-Chen Chen; Jin-Fu Li 001 (ICCAD, 2014)

ICCAD-2014 CAD contest in incremental timing-driven placement and benchmark suite. - Myung-Chul Kim; Jin Hu; Natarajan Viswanathan (ICCAD, 2014)

Techniques for scalable and effective routability evaluation. - Yaoguang Wei; Cliff C. N. Sze; Natarajan Viswanathan; Zhuo Li 001; Charles J. Alpert; Lakshmi N. Reddy; Andrew D. Huber; Gustavo E. Téllez; Douglas Keller; Sachin S. Sapatnekar (ACM Trans. Design Autom. Electr. Syst., 2014)

An Effective Floorplan-Guided Placement Algorithm for Large-Scale Mixed-Size Designs. - Jackey Z. Yan; Natarajan Viswanathan; Chris Chu (ACM Trans. Design Autom. Electr. Syst., 2014)

ICCAD-2015 CAD Contest in Incremental Timing-driven Placement and Benchmark Suite. - Myung-Chul Kim; Jin Hu; Jiajia Li; Natarajan Viswanathan (ICCAD, 2015)

Overview of the 2015 CAD Contest at ICCAD. - Natarajan Viswanathan; Shih-Hsu Huang; Rung-Bin Lin; Myung-Chul Kim (ICCAD, 2015)

MrDP: Multiple-Row Detailed Placement of Heterogeneous-Sized Cells for Advanced Nodes. - Yibo Lin; Bei Yu 001; Xiaoqing Xu; Jhih-Rong Gao; Natarajan Viswanathan; Wen-Hao Liu 001; Zhuo Li 001; Charles J. Alpert; David Z. Pan (IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst., 2018)

Still Benchmarking After All These Years. - Ismail S. Bustany; Jinwook Jung; Patrick H. Madden; Natarajan Viswanathan; Stephen Yang (ISPD, 2021)