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**November 27:**
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We have extended the experiment of [Question 3](#Question3) to check the quality of our testcases. As mentioned [here](#Question3), we take the CT generated macro placement and then randomly swap the same size macros. We use the [shuffle_macro.tcl](https://github.com/TILOS-AI-Institute/MacroPlacement/blob/651a36626dd778018c5cf867b419e44f64fb103e/Flows/util/shuffle_macro.tcl#L29) script for this experiment. The following sections provide the details of macro shuffling experiments for different testcases.
We have extended the experiment of [Question 3](#Question3) to assess the difficulty of our testcases. As mentioned [here](#Question3), we take the CT-generated macro placement and then randomly swap the same-size macros. We use the [shuffle_macro.tcl](https://github.com/TILOS-AI-Institute/MacroPlacement/blob/651a36626dd778018c5cf867b419e44f64fb103e/Flows/util/shuffle_macro.tcl#L29) script for this experiment. The following items provide details of the macro shuffling experiments for different testcases.
-**Ariane:**
The target clock period of the shuffling experiment for Ariane133-NG45-68% shown [here](#Question3) is 4ns, which is very relaxed (See [here](#September18) for clock period sweep results). So we ran the same macro shuffling experiment for a tighter target clock period 1.3ns. The following table shows the preCTS / postPlaceOpt and postRouteOpt metrics. We shuffled the macros using six different seeds where seed values are 111, 222, 333, 444, 555 and 666.
The target clock period of the shuffling experiment for Ariane133-NG45-68% shown [here](#Question3) is 4ns, which is very relaxed (see [here](#September18) for clock period sweep results). Hence, we ran the same macro shuffling experiment for a tighter target clock period of 1.3ns. The following table shows the preCTS / postPlaceOpt and postRouteOpt metrics. We shuffled the macros using six different seed values of 111, 222, 333, 444, 555 and 666.
- For the shuffled designs, the total power increases by 1.4%, the wirelength increases by 16%, and the runtime increases by 9% on average.
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-**BlackParrot (Quad-Core):**
We have done similar macro shuffling experiment for BlackParrot (Quad-Core) design. The following table shows the preCTS / postPlaceOpt and postRouteOpt metrics. We shuffled the macros using six different seeds where seed values are 111, 222, 333, 444, 555 and 666.
We have performed a similar macro shuffling experiment for the BlackParrot (Quad-Core) design. The following table shows the preCTS / postPlaceOpt and postRouteOpt metrics. We shuffled the macros using six different seed values of 111, 222, 333, 444, 555 and 666.
- For the shuffled designs, the total power increases by 6%, the wirelength increases by 33%, and the runtime increases by 16% on average.
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-**MemPool Group:**
We have tried a similar macro shuffling experiment for MemPool Group, but none of our runs completed.
We have tried a similar macro shuffling experiment for MemPool Group, but none of our runs completed (i.e., flow failure).