A new incremental placement algorithm C-ECOP for standard cell layout is presented to reduce routing congestion.It first estimates the routing congestion through a new routing model.Then,it formulates an integer linear programming (ILP) problem to determine cell flow direction and to avoid the conflictions between adjacent congestion areas.Experimental results show that the algorithm can considerably reduce routing congestion and preserve the performance of the initial placement with high speed.
Information Hiding Technology has a long history. With the development of Digital Technology,it has become a newly evolved discipline and a hot research area. Since the first Information Hiding Workshop held in 1996 ,thetechnology has been widely applied to areas such as multimedia ,signal processing and protection of software Intellectual Property,but the research work in secure communication is relatively fewer. Based on success of developing asteganography tool for communication,this article summarizes the current progress in the research of InformationHiding Technology systematically, and analyzes possible countermeasures against various Information Hiding techniques.
