Advanced manufacturing and packaging techniques are permitting a glimpse at the near-future, where wires can go in three dimensions, and ICs made in diverse processes can be assembled together--sandwich like--to achieve ever higher levels of integration. This article focuses on a specific CAD problem in connection with 3D ICs: how to partition, place, and wire a design subject to various constraints on power, timing, and manufacturability.
Index Terms:
Placement and routing, VLSI
Citation:
Cristinel Ababei, Yan Feng, Brent Goplen, Hushrav Mogal, Tianpei Zhang, Kia Bazargan, Sachin Sapatnekar, "Placement and Routing in 3D Integrated Circuits," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 520-531, Nov./Dec. 2005, doi:10.1109/MDT.2005.150