The following results were achieved from the internal development version of iTools

These results are for the MCNC suite of standard placement benchmarks. Each result is the best of a number of runs of iTools, for a particular setup of the program. The released version will use the same program setup.


Benchmark Number of Cells Wire Length TimberWolf Version 7 * Wire Length iTools Version 1.4.0
Golem3 99932 90.39 79.9
Avqlarge 25114 5.65 4.78
Avqsmall 21854 5.08 4.48
Industry 3 15059 41.53 39.6
Industry 2 12142 13.30 11.4
Biomed 6417 3.22 2.90
Primary 2 2907 3.53 3.37
Struct ** 1888 N/A 0.272
Primary 1 752 0.83 0.799

* TimberWolf Version 7 produces the best results previously published.

** Struct was run without the normal pad constraints used in the benchmark