Abstract: A method (and a system for using the method) for placing a semiconductor circuit device between a driver and one or more receivers on the floor space of a chip. The method includes the steps of: determining respective distances between the driver and each of the one or more receivers; determining a shortest of the distances; determining midpoint along the shortest distance; determining whether the midpoint is predesignated to the floor space of one or more blocking semiconductor circuit devices; placing the repeater at the midpoint if the midpoint is not predesignated to the one or more blocking semiconductor circuit devices; and applying a backoff algorithm to incrementally back away from the midpoint to an optimal location, and placing the repeater at the optimal location, if the midpoint is predesignated to the one or more blocking semiconductor circuit devices.