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From: hardaker@iris.UCDavis.EDU (Wes Hardaker)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad
Subject: Re: router effeciency
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Date: 24 Apr 91 21:22:34 GMT
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I too am interested in estimating the output size of place & route
routines.  Currently, I am using lager to do some auto-matic place &
route, and I would really like to get a general estimate of the final
layout size before actually spending x number of hours to do the routing
only to discover it is too large to use.  Is there any references to
this at all in journals, etc. that I can browse through (ANY router, not
just lager).

Obviously, as somone pointed out earlier, it is not possible to get an
extremely accurate estimate, but even a rough estimate would be nice!
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