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Wire Planning with Bounded Over-the-Block Wires
San Jose, California March 21-March 23
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISQED.2005.130Sixth International Symposium on Qual ...
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Hua Xiang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
I-Min Liu, Cadence Design System, San Jose, CA
Martin D. F. Wong, UIUC, Urbana, IL
Hierarchical approach greatly facilitates large-scale chip design by hiding distracting details in low-level objects. However, the low-level designs have to have a global view of high-level object connections so that some resources can be allocated in advance, and this makes wire planning an important issue in physical design. In this paper, we present two exact polynomial-time algorithms for wire planning with bounded over-the-block wires. The constraints on over-the-block wires help the longest over-the-block wires within a block to satisfy signal integrity without buffer inserted. Both algorithms guarantee to find an optimal routing solution for a two-pin net as long as one exists. One requires less memory, while the other may take less running time when processing a large number of nets. According to different application requirements, users can choose an appropriate one.
Index Terms:
routing, over-the-block, wire planning
Citation:
Hua Xiang, I-Min Liu, Martin D. F. Wong, "Wire Planning with Bounded Over-the-Block Wires," isqed, pp.622-627, Sixth International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED'05), 2005
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