Visualization Tools

EDA (electronic design automation) tools paved the way for the integration of billions 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. The talk is illustrated with several examples, specially, 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 our group.