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Any reference paper for the psm tool?

Tool: IR Drop Analysis

Subcategory: Reference materials

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Pzy-ss

Did the psm module refer to any academic research? If so, it would be better to cite the paper for us to learn the ir-solver and make some improvement. If not, any recommendation for freshmen to understand the whole ir-drop thing? Appreciate it!

vijayank88

@Pzy-ss Have you referred this? https://theopenroadproject.org/an-ml-based-iccad-contest-for-static-ir-drop-estimation/

maliberty

@VidyaChhabria is the author - would you comment.

maliberty

@VidyaChhabria provided the doc in #3405

VidyaChhabria

Look at PR: https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/pull/3428 should update the document to have the citations.