“…Unlike the work in [10], most previous work partitioned a rectilinear module into a set of rectangular submodules and operated on the submodules under some constraints induced from the original rectilinear module. There are a few existing partition based approaches using well-known representations: for example, bounded-sliceline grid (BSG) [5], [7], [16], sequence pair [2], [6], [21], -tree [20], -tree [18], and corner block list (CBL) [13].…”