Using Statistical Transformations to Improve Compression for Linear Decompressors. - Samuel I. Ward; Chris Schattauer; Nur A. Touba (DFT, 2005)

Quantifying academic placer performance on custom designs. - Samuel I. Ward; David A. Papa; Zhuo Li 001; Cliff N. Sze; Charles J. Alpert; Earl E. Swartzlander Jr. (ISPD, 2011)

PADE: a high-performance placer with automatic datapath extraction and evaluation through high dimensional data learning. - Samuel I. Ward; Duo Ding; David Z. Pan (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)

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)

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)