Submission Information

• To submit your placer's alpha binary executable please do the following:
  1. Name your executable "placer"
  
  
  2. Upload a gzipped verison, i.e. placer.gz, to the "to_ISPD_contest" folder in your support-net account


• The executable should have the following required arguments:
  • -tech_lef -- specifies the tech.lef input file
  • -cell_lef -- specifies the cell.lef input file
  • -floorplan_def -- specifies the floorplan.lef input file
  • -verilog -- specifies the design.v input file
  • -output -- specifies the output placement DEF file
  
  It may also have the following optional argument:
  -cpu -- specifies the number of CPU's to use


• An example for running your command:
  
  placer -tech_lef tech.lef -cell_lef cell.lef -floorplan_def floorplan.def -verilog design.v -cpu 4 -output placed.def

• Please submit a static binary as it helps with portability.

• Each team is allowed to submit a single binary compiled on Cent OS (or Redhat) 6.2 . This executable binary should successfully run on all the designs in the benchmarks.

• The submitted work can be either single threaded or multi-threaded version.

• In order to continue the contest, the contestants must complete at least one alpha submission during the alpha submission periods from January 27, 2014 to February 20, 2014. Teams that do not submit any alpha executable by February 20, 2014, will be disqualified from the contest.

• The final deadline for submitting the executable is March 16, 2014.

• No pre-computed information can be used to influence the current run. The run directory will be cleaned prior to each run.

The officially supported programming language will be C/C++, version 4.6.1. For other languages, please check with the contest organizers first.