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Congestion Driven Buffer Planning for X-Architecture
San Jose, California March 26-March 28
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Hongjie Bai, Tsinghua University, China
Sheqin Dong, Tsinghua University, China
Xianlong Hong, Tsinghua University, China
With recent advance of VLSI design, interconnect delay plays dominant role in the chip performance. X-Architecture, which is based on pervasive use of 0- degree, 45-degree, 90-degree and 135-degree-oriented wiring, has been proposed to achieve highperformance by reducing wire length and via count. In this paper, a buffer planning algorithm at floorplanning stage for X-Arch is proposed. Firstly, the concept of Feasible Region (FR) is extended to X-Arch Feasible Region (XFR) by which buffer regions for a net in X-Arch can be determined. Then, a new buffer insertion algorithm using shortest-path model is applied with consideration of X-Arch routing congestion. At last, dead space redistribution is performed to optimize timing performance and congestion.
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Hongjie Bai, Sheqin Dong, Xianlong Hong, "Congestion Driven Buffer Planning for X-Architecture," isqed, pp.835-840, 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07), 2007
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