placeDesign: Places standard cells based on the global settings for placement, RC extraction, timing analysis, and trial routing. Also performs the following operations:

Pre-placement optimization Scan tracing and scan reordering Placement optimization during the placement process Incremental placement on an already placed design

placeDesign

[-help]

[-clkGateRecloning]

[-ilm]

[-inPlaceOpt]

[-incremental]

[-noPrePlaceOpt]

By default, placeDesign performs timing-driven placement with scan reordering, except during prototyping, when it runs in non-timing-driven mode. To change this behavior, run setPlaceMode with the following parameters prior to running placeDesign :

-reorderScan false -timingDriven false