POLAR: placement based on novel rough legalization and refinement. - Tao Lin 007; Chris Chu; Joseph R. Shinnerl; Ismail Bustany; Ivailo Nedelchev (ICCAD, 2013)

POLAR 2.0: An Effective Routability-Driven Placer. - Tao Lin 007; Chris Chu (DAC, 2014)

Asynchronous circuit placement by lagrangian relaxation. - Gang Wu 002; Tao Lin 007; Hsin-Ho Huang; Chris Chu; Peter A. Beerel (ICCAD, 2014)

POLAR 3.0: An Ultrafast Global Placement Engine. - Tao Lin 007; Chris C. N. Chu; Gang Wu 002 (ICCAD, 2015)

TPL-Aware Displacement-driven Detailed Placement Refinement with Coloring Constraints. - Tao Lin 007; Chris C. N. Chu (ISPD, 2015)

POLAR: A High Performance Mixed-Size Wirelengh-Driven Placer With Density Constraints. - Tao Lin 007; Chris C. N. Chu; Joseph R. Shinnerl; Ismail Bustany; Ivailo Nedelchev (IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst., 2015)