A Simulated Annealing FPGA Placer in Rust

• sa-placer

  1 12 4.8 Rust

To the author: the source link https://github.com/stefanpie/sa-placer appears to be private.

• nextpnr

  6 1,201 9.1 C++

  nextpnr portable FPGA place and route tool

  

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• DREAMPlace

  2 621 7.4 C++

  Deep learning toolkit-enabled VLSI placement

Yes, see "DREAMPlace: DREAMPlace: Deep Learning Toolkit-Enabled GPU Acceleration for Modern VLSI Placement".[1] The technique in particular rather reformulates VLSI placement in terms of a non-linear optimization problem. Which is how ML frameworks (broadly) work, optimizing approximations to high-dimensional non-linear functions. So it's not like, shoving the netlist it into an LLM or an existing network or anything.

Note that DREAMPlace is a global placer; it also comes with a detail placer but global placement is what it is targeted at. I don't know of an appropriate research analogue for the routing phase of the problem that follows placing, but maybe someone else does.

[1] https://github.com/limbo018/DREAMPlace

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