Estimating Rent's Exponent
To estimate Rent's exponent, one can use top-down partitioning, as used in min-cut placement. For every partition, count the number of terminals connected to the partition and compare it to the number of logic blocks in the partition. Rent's exponent can then be found by fitting these datapoints on a log-log plot, resulting in an exponent p'. For optimally partitioned circuits, but this is no longer the case for practical (heuristic) partitioning approaches. For partitioning-based placement algorithms .
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