Capo: Congestion-Driven Placement for Standard-cell and RTL Netlists with Incremental Capability

In this chapter, we describe the robust and scalable academic placement tool Capo. Capo uses the min-cut placement paradigm and performs (a) scalable multiway partitioning, (b) routable standard-cell placement, (c) integrated mixed-size placement, (d) wire length-driven fixed-outline floorplanning as well as (e) incremental placement.