Improving placement algorithms by using visualization tools

EDA tools paved the way for the integration of billion of components in a single integrated circuit. However, many tools still rely on text interfaces. The use of visualizations tools can help not only to provide a visual output of an EDA tool but also to show how a tool is performing in terms of quality of results. A good graphic output can be useful to improve algorithms or develop new ones. Some placement visualization tools are shown and it is provided a perspective how these visualization tools contributed to the improvement and development of new algorithms developed by us.