Binghamton Laboratory for Algorithms, Circuits, and Computer Aided Design (BLAC CAD) Group

Group director: Prof. Patrick H. Madden
Software has been developed by
- Ameya Agnihotri, who developed the mixed block and standard cell legalizers, and performed the fractional cut work.
- Satoshi Ono, responsible for structural placement techniques and clustering methods.
- Mehmet Can Yildiz, who developed the foundation of the placement method, implemented the iterative deletion techniques, and was key to the development of cut sequence techniques.
- Ateen Khatkhate, who did early work on mixed size placement.
- Raia T. Hadsell, author of the dispersion global router.
- Ryon Smey, author of the initial detail routing code.
- Sameer Pujari, who developed our strategy for modeling lithography constraints.
- Patrika Agarwal, developer of code for our TILT delay analysis method.
- Arvind Vidyarthi, who did experiments and modeling to support our TILT method.
- Dhananjay Dhole, who developed improvements to the TILT interpolation scheme.
Portions of this software were developed in collaboration with Chen Li (Purdue), Prof. Cheng-Kok Koh (Purdue), Pradeep Ramachandaran (Binghamton SSIE), Prof. Purush Damodaran (Binghamton SSIE), and Tan Yan (University of Kitakyushu).

Additionally, a number of people provided useful suggestions. In particular, we would like to thank Prof. Roman Bazylevych (Lviv), Prof. Yoji Kajitani (University of Kitakyushu), Dr. Bill Swartz (InternetCAD), the research staff at IBM TJW and Austin, and the the research staff at Intel.
Graphic design assistance and photographs are provided by Laura Lee Intscher, Architect.