System, method, and computer program product for simultaneous routing and placement in an electronic circuit design

A computing system comprising:

• at least one processor configured to receive an unplaced layout associated with an electronic circuit design and one or more grouping requirements, the at least one processor further configured to identify one or more instances that need to be placed at the unplaced layout and one or more areas of the unplaced layout configured to receive the one or more instances, the at least one processor further configured to analyze one or more instances that need to be placed at the unplaced layout and the one or more areas of the unplaced layout configured to receive the one or more instances, the at least one processor further configured to determine a location and an orientation for each of the one or more instances based upon, at least in part, the analyzing, the at least one processor further configured to generate a placed layout based upon, at least in part, the determined location and orientation for each of the one or more instances and during the generation of the placed layout, the at least one processor further configured to route the placed layout, wherein generating or routing is based upon, at least in part, a genetic algorithm, the at least one processor further configured to identify a best routing result and save a chromosome associated with a best routing result.