Electric has a placement tool that can rearrange a circuit so that routing is easier.
The tool can handle schematic or layout cells.
To run placement, use the Place Current Cell command
(in menu Tools / Placement).
The Placement Preferences (in menu File / Preferences..., "Tools" section, "Placement" tab)
let you control which placement algorithm is being used.
It also lets you control specific preferences for each algorithm.
These are the possible placement algorithms:
- "Simulated-Annealing-1" an experimental placer that uses Simulated Annealing to organized nodes.
- "Simulated-Annealing-2" an experimental placer that uses Simulated Annealing to organized nodes.
- "Genetic-1" an experimental placer that uses a genetic algorithm to organized nodes.
- "Genetic-2" an experimental placer that uses a genetic algorithm to organized nodes.
- "Force-Directed-1" an experimental placer that uses a force-directed algorithm to organized nodes.
- "Force-Directed-2" an experimental placer that uses a force-directed algorithm to organized nodes.
- "Min-Cut" a simple placer that uses min-cut to organize nodes.
- "Random" and "Simple" randomly place nodes (for test purposes only).
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