Abstract: A method including creating a plurality of component groups in a circuit layout coupling multiple components in each component group of the plurality of component groups with a power rail, a ground rail, or a bulk, is provided. The method includes creating internal clusters based on a group cost and including the group cost in an overall cost function, forming a gap between two component groups of the plurality of component groups, and filling the gap with a first gap cell adjacent to a first power rail and to a first ground rail, and a second gap cell adjacent to the first gap cell. A system and a non-transitory, machine readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for implementing routing aware placement for an electronic design. These techniques identify a block having one or more first pins or interconnects to be inserted into a first layer corresponding to a first set of tracks and identify a second set of tracks on a second layer adjacent to the first layer. One or more candidate locations may be generated on the first layer for the block based in part or in whole upon the first set of tracks. The block may be inserted into a candidate location on the first layer based in part or in whole upon respective costs or routability of the one or more candidate locations with respect to the second set of tracks.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for implementing placement using row templates for an electronic design using row templates. These techniques identify or create a row region in a layout of an electronic design. A row template is applied to the row region to create one or more placement rows in the row region. One or more layout circuit components may then be placed into one or more rows or at one or more locations to create a legal placement layout by guiding placement of the one or more layout circuit components with the row template.