Artificial Intelligence Approach to Integrated Circuit Floorplanning

In 1984, while I was following his postgraduate course on VLSI design, my supervisor Dr. David Skellern, asked me if I was interested in investigating intelligent approaches to automatic Ie floorplanning. He told me then: "a circuit that works always looks nice, has a clever data and control flow. A fast way to look at students'' Ie projects is by looking at their fioorplans.". Later, I took a cou...