ISPD 2005/2006 Placement Benchmarks

Benchmarks can contribute significantly to algorithm development of many fields by providing a common basis for quantitative measurement and comparison. The early MCNC benchmarks and ISPD98 benchmarks [1] helped the academic community significantly to measure the advances in physical design in 1990s. While still being used extensively in placement and floorplanning research, those benchmarks can no longer be considered representative of today’s physical design challenges. To further aid future advances in placement, new benchmark suites, dubbed as ISPD 2005/2006 Placement Benchmarks, have been released in conjunction with ISPD placement contests. There are total 16 benchmark circuits that are directly derived from modern industrial ASIC designs.