The major contributions of this paper involve: (1) the solution feasibility is significantly improved by removing the over-constraints due to the imposed parasitic bounds; (2) accurate performance sensitivities due to parasitics are utilized within the flow by adopting a piecewise-sensitivity model with the aid of a powerful mixed-integer nonlinear solver; (3) parasitic-aware layout automation is effectively achieved by constructing optimization in a single process without users’ intervention; (4) experimental results verify the layout quality improvement and execution time reduction compared to the
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