I want to suggest minimizing core area (total bounding box of all cells) and core utilization ((std cell + macro) / core area) for the leaderboard unless this is not the scope of the challenge. This would seem more realistic instead of only optimizing for overlap and wire length.
I want to suggest minimizing core area (total bounding box of all cells) and core utilization ((std cell + macro) / core area) for the leaderboard unless this is not the scope of the challenge. This would seem more realistic instead of only optimizing for overlap and wire length.