A hybrid linear equation solver and its application in quadratic placement

  • Authors:
  • Haifeng Qian;S. S. Sapatnekar

  • Affiliations:
  • Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA;Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA

  • Venue:
  • ICCAD '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents a new hybrid linear equation solver for quadratic placement. The new solver is a combination of stochastic solver and iterative solver: it is proven in this paper that an approximate LDL factorization can be obtained from random walks, and used as a preconditioner for conjugate gradient solver. Testing on real-life placement benchmarks shows a speedup of up to 7.1 times over traditional Incomplete Cholesky preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (ICCG).