Preface. List of Abbreviations. 1: Introduction. 1.1. Outline of the Book. 2: Mapping Problems in the Design Flow. 2.1. Top-Down Flow and Bottom-Up Approach. 2.2. The Mapping Problem. 2.3. Placement and Routing Constraints. 3: Optimization Methods. 3.1. VLSI Optimization Methods. 3.2. Simulated Annealing. 3.3. Concluding Remarks. 4: Optimization Approach Based on Simulated Annealing. 4.1. Optimization Flow. 4.2. Problem Representation. 4.3. Perturbation...