1.2. FLOOR PLANNING In floor planning step we decide how much area will be required for our design to place in the core area so that minimum wire length will be used to make connectivity between standard cells. We also create the input output pins. The process of arranging the macros in a block or chip is called floor planning . This step is critical as a bad floor panning can result in a design which can be congested or which cannot be closed in terms of timing