A Parallel Bottom-up Clustering Algorithm with Applications to Circuit Partitioning in VLSI Design
@article{Cong1993APB,
title={A Parallel Bottom-up Clustering Algorithm with Applications to Circuit Partitioning in VLSI Design},
author={Jason Cong and M. Smith},
journal={30th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference},
year={1993},
pages={755-760}
}In this paper, we present a bottom-up clustering algorithm based on recursive collapsing of small cliques in a graph. The sizes of the small cliques are derived using random graph theory. This clustering algorithm leads to a natural parallel implementation in which multiple processors are used to identify clusters simultaneously. We also present a cluster-based partitioning method in which our clustering algorithm is used as a preprocessing step to both the bisection algorithm by Fiduccia and…
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