A Diagnostic Method for Detecting and Assessing the Impact of Physical Design Optimizations on Routing Robert Lembach Rafael A. Arce-Nazario Donald Eisenmenger Cory Wood IBM Engineering and Technology Services To replace the title / subtitle with your own: Click on the title block -> select all the text by pressing Ctrl+A -> press Delete key -> type your own text 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Agenda Appreciation Motivation and Goals Process Flow Examples Summary A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Motivation – Improve Physical Design Quality Serendipitous observations by physical designers using a variety of physical optimizations systems Poorly placed objects Sub-optimal buffer topologies or placements White space distribution issues Complexity: algorithms, versions, parameters, interactions Routing is being negatively impacted A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Goals Enable an independent audit of physical designs from a variety of physical design systems Be exhaustive in scope Initial focus on rapidly increasing buffer quantities Easy to understand algorithm and metrics Enable data mining A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Process Flow Interrogate net list to extract disjoint groups Execute algorithm on each group Data mining 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Group Creation Groups can be serial and/or parallel buffering trees or other logic boxes. Groups are disjoint File is input for algorithm graphic tools data mining A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Group Statistics for 8 Chip Designs Chart includes only the transparent buffering cells Non-buffer groups also suitable for analysis A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Group Colorization From BlueGene/L chip (ISSCC 2005) Example of group use In a routing hotspot, find and move arbitrarily placed buffering to free up routing channels 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

OOB (Out of Bounds) Algorithm Compares original network to reduced network with buffering made transparent Calculated for each group Quality metrics Bloat length, ratio, density Laps around the chip A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Data Mining: Meandering Buffer Chain Data mining technique Review 2-pin networks (buffering is transparent) OOB identifies this layout as grossly out of bounds with high bloat length and bloat ratio This area was hard to route A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Data Mining: Tuning Fork Topology Physical synthesis adds buffer near source to drive one of two far sinks. Far sinks are near each other. OOB predicts ~2x bloat, a doubling of routing demand Routing may be degraded if transform is repeated many times in local area A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Data Mining: Tuning Fork Topology Meandering nets reflect locally difficult routing OOB using actual routes shows >2x bloat length One of several similar transforms in this area Timing surprises OOB can use estimated or actual routes A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Data Mining: Non-buffer Groups OOB can be extended beyond buffered networks Example: 4-way OR with fanout of 1 on each net OOB predicts ~3X bloat length for this configuration For routing, better to fracture high function library elements, especially if they are locally clustered A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Data Mining: One Bit in a Bus OOB detects high bloat length and ratio in simple buffer chain which one bit of a a larger bus Physical synthesis attempts to use holes punched in large object A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Data Mining: All Bits OOB detects issues wide variation in solution quality Physical synthesis attempts to randomly distribute the buffering Placement of buffering impacts routing, even if bloat is minimal A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Data Mining: Placement Anomalies 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Data Mining: One-box OOB Groups Full chip view of bloat Objects can be displaced during legalization or overlap removal Addition of buffering is usually very non-uniform Useful in floor plan closure 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Data Mining: Creative Buffering Schemes White object drives blue buffer and yellow objects Blue buffer drives red objects Blue buffer added to reduce load on white object Nearly doubles local wiring demand due to two nearly identical nets OOB: ~1.8x bloat ratio 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Data Mining: Artificially Induced Problems 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Up to 10% of Chip Wire May Be Unnecessary Buffer bloat (4%) Poor topology or poor placement of buffering Collateral Damage (4%) Proximate nets meandering due to added routing stress Proximate objects perturbed by buffer insertion Non-buffer bloat (2%) Library selection and influence on routing 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019

Summary PD observations drove review of current practices Current tools do significant routing damage, with up to 10% of total chip wire unnecessary OOB flow is one way to track solution quality Data mining used to identify problems and trends A pot file is a Design Template file, which provides you the “look” of the presentation You apply a pot file by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) or BluePearl Deluxe.pot (white background) and click on Apply. You can switch between black and white background by navigating to that pot file and click on Apply. Another easier way to switch background is by changing color scheme. Opening the Task Pane, select Slide Design – Color Schemes and click on one of the two schemes. All your existing content (including Business Unit or Product Names) will be switched without any modification to color or wording. Start with Blank Presentation, then switch to the desired Design Template Start a new presentation as Blank Presentation You can switch to Blue Onyx Deluxe.pot by opening the Task Pane with View > Task Pane and select Slide Design – Design Templates. Click on the word Browse… at bottom of Task Pane and navigate to where you stored BlueOnyx Deluxe.pot (black background) and click on Apply. Your existing content will take on Blue Onyx’s black background, and previous black text will turn to white. You should add your Business Unit or Product Name by modifying it on the Slide Master You switch to the Slide Master view by View > Master > Slide Master. Click on the Title Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on the Bullet List Page thumbnail icon on the left, and click on the Business Unit or Product Name field to modify it. Click on Close Master View button on the floating Master View Toolbar You can turn on the optional date and footer fields by View > Header and Footer Suggested footer on all pages including Title Page: Presentation Title | Confidential Date and time field can be fixed, or Update automatically. It appears to the right of the footer. Slide number field can be turned on as well. It appears to the left of the footer. 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design 1/10/2019