Non-Rectangular Shaping and Sizing of Soft Modules in Floorplan Design

Many previous works on floorplanning with nonrectangular modules assume that the modules are predesignated to have particular nonrectangular shapes, e.g., L-shaped, T-shaped, etc. However, this is not common in practice because rectangular shapes are ...

In the early stage of floorplan design, many modules have large flexibilities in shape (soft modules). Handling soft modules in general nonslicing floorplan is a complicated problem. Many previous works have attempted to tackle this problem using ...

Molodtsov introduced the concept of soft sets.Recently, Aktas et al. generalized soft sets by defining the concept of soft groups. In this paper, we present the definition of soft modules and construct some basic properties using modules and Molodtsov's ...