Process · Physical Design & Signoff
Legalisation
Snapping overlapping, off-grid cells from global placement onto legal sites and rows with no overlaps, while displacing each cell as little as possible so timing and wirelength are preserved.
- Also known as
- Legalization
- Type
- Process
- Domain
- Physical Design & Signoff, Placement
Notes
Large legalisation displacement is a reliable warning that local density or blockages were set unrealistically.
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