Modern Placement Techniques

Modern Placement Techniques
Author: Majid Sarrafzadeh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1475737815

Modern Placement Techniques explains physical design and VLSI/CAD placement to the professional engineer and engineering student. Along with explaining the problems that are associated with placement, the book gives an overview of existing placement algorithms, techniques and methodologies. Modern Placement Techniques emphasizes recent advances in addressing the placement problem, including congestion-driven, timing driven, mixed macro-cell and standard cell placement. The book presents the Dragon placement tool, with detailed algorithm descriptions for wire length, congestion and timing optimization. Placement benchmarks and results produced by Dragon are explained in detail.

Successful Teaching Placement in Scotland Primary and Early Years

Successful Teaching Placement in Scotland Primary and Early Years
Author: Jane Medwell
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2008-05-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0857252496

The majority of ITE students in Scotland are postgraduates with only one year to grasp the vast skills and knowledge required to become a primary teacher. Therefore, for many, school placement is a source of stress and worry. This book combines the information and support that students need to help them prepare for, enjoy and maximise the benefits of teaching placements for their professional development. It has been specifically written for the education system in Scotland, taking full account of the differences in practice and terminology that make English books of little use to trainees in Scotland.

Making the Most of Field Placement

Making the Most of Field Placement
Author: HELEN & WILSON CLEAK (JILL.)
Publisher: Cengage AU
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 017041700X

Learn how to get the most from your placements with the aid of this user-friendly text. Making the Most of Field Placement offers a practice-based approach to teaching and learning during placement experiences.

Child Welfare: Child placement and children away from home

Child Welfare: Child placement and children away from home
Author: Nick Frost
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2005
Genre: Child abuse
ISBN: 9780415312561

This collection focuses on child welfare in its specific sense: welfare and social interventions with children and young people undertaken by State bodies or NGO's. The term 'child welfare' is deployed differently in diverse international settings. In the United Kingdom child welfare tends to refer to individualised programmes for children who have experienced problems in their lives. In India, to take a contrasting example, it can also refer to major housing and nutrition programmes. This collection takes an inclusive approach to international perspectives.The collection is completed by a new general introduction by the editor, individual volume introductions, and a full index.Titles also available in this series include, Medical Sociology (November 2004, 4 Volumes, 495) and the forthcoming collection Health Care Systems (2005, 3 Volumes, c.395).

Modern Circuit Placement

Modern Circuit Placement
Author: Gi-Joon Nam
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2007-08-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387687394

This book covers advanced techniques in modern circuit placement. It details all of most recent placement techniques available in the field and analyzes the optimality of these techniques. Coverage includes all the academic placement tools that competed against one another on the same industrial benchmark circuits at the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), these techniques are also extensively being used in industrial tools as well. The book provides significant amounts of analysis on each technique such as trade-offs between quality-of-results (QoR) and runtime.

VLSI Placement and Routing: The PI Project

VLSI Placement and Routing: The PI Project
Author: Alan T. Sherman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461396581

This book provides a superb introduction to and overview of the MIT PI System for custom VLSI placement and routing. Alan Sher man has done an excellent job of collecting and clearly presenting material that was previously available only in various theses, confer ence papers, and memoranda. He has provided here a balanced and comprehensive presentation of the key ideas and techniques used in PI, discussing part of his own Ph. D. work (primarily on the place ment problem) in the context of the overall design of PI and the contributions of the many other PI team members. I began the PI Project in 1981 after learning first-hand how dif ficult it is to manually place modules and route interconnections in a custom VLSI chip. In 1980 Adi Shamir, Leonard Adleman, and I designed a custom VLSI chip for performing RSA encryp tion/decryption [226]. I became fascinated with the combinatorial and algorithmic questions arising in placement and routing, and be gan active research in these areas. The PI Project was started in the belief that many of the most interesting research issues would arise during an actual implementation effort, and secondarily in the hope that a practically useful tool might result. The belief was well-founded, but I had underestimated the difficulty of building a large easily-used software tool for a complex domain; the PI soft ware should be considered as a prototype implementation validating the design choices made.

Succeeding on Your Nursing Placement

Succeeding on Your Nursing Placement
Author: Ian Peate
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1119819660

Succeeding on Your Nursing Placement Get the most out of your practice placement with this handy guide Every nursing programme requires placements where nursing students and trainee nursing associates can spend the required hours in practice-based learning, on the pathway to registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). In recent years, the introduction of new assessment standards and the massive disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges for nursing students and placement instructors. Now more than ever, it is essential that nursing students are able to make the most of their placement experience. Succeeding on your Nursing Placement provides indispensable guidance, built carefully around the 2018 Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment and their deployment in practice settings. This book provides students with the tools and best practices required to succeed in their practice placement and achieve registration, emphasising relationships with patients, supervisors, fellow placement students, and others. Twelve chapters covering a range of subjects including equality and diversity, feedback, learning in practice, and more A specific section focusing on the practice assessment document Boxed activities in each chapter encouraging further learning and development Succeeding on your Nursing Placement is a must-have book for nursing students and trainee nursing associates looking to position themselves well at this crucial stage of their education.

VLSI Placement and Global Routing Using Simulated Annealing

VLSI Placement and Global Routing Using Simulated Annealing
Author: Carl Sechen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461316979

From my B.E.E degree at the University of Minnesota and right through my S.M. degree at M.I.T., I had specialized in solid state devices and microelectronics. I made the decision to switch to computer-aided design (CAD) in 1981, only a year or so prior to the introduction of the simulated annealing algorithm by Scott Kirkpatrick, Dan Gelatt, and Mario Vecchi of the IBM Thomas 1. Watson Research Center. Because Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, my UC Berkeley advisor, had been a consultant at IBM, I re ceived a copy of the original IBM internal report on simulated annealing approximately the day of its release. Given my background in statistical mechanics and solid state physics, I was immediately impressed by this new combinatorial optimization technique. As Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli had suggested I work in the areas of placement and routing, it was in these realms that I sought to explore this new algorithm. My flJ'St implementation of simulated annealing was for an island-style gate array placement problem. This work is presented in the Appendix of this book. I was quite struck by the effect of a nonzero temperature on what otherwise appears to be a random in terchange algorithm.