Recent research and emerging challenges in physical design for manufacturability/reliability

CW Lin, MC Tsai, KY Lee, TC Chen… - 2007 Asia and South …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As IC process geometries scale down to the nanometer territory, the industry faces severe
challenges of manufacturing limitations. To guarantee yield and reliability, physical design …

[LIBRO][B] Electronic design automation: synthesis, verification, and test

LT Wang, YW Chang, KTT Cheng - 2009 - books.google.com
This book provides broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire EDA flow. EDA/VLSI
practitioners and researchers in need of fluency in an" adjacent" field will find this an …

High-performance routing at the nanometer scale

JA Roy, IL Markov - … Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we describe significant improvements to core routing technologies and
outperform the best results from the International Symposium on Physical Design 2007 …

BoxRouter: A new global router based on box expansion and progressive ILP

M Cho, DZ Pan - Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we propose a new global router, BoxRouter, powered by the concept of box
expansion and progressive integer linear programming (ILP). BoxRouter first uses a simple …

BoxRouter 2.0: Architecture and implementation of a hybrid and robust global router

M Cho, K Lu, K Yuan, DZ Pan - 2007 IEEE/ACM International …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present BoxRouter 2.0, a hybrid and robust global router with discussion on
its architecture and implementation. As high performance VLSI design becomes more …

Stable and efficient reduction of substrate model networks using congruence transforms

KJ Kerns, IL Wemple, AT Yang - Proceedings of IEEE …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Parasitic analog-digital noise coupling has been identified as a key issue facing designers
of mixed-signal integrated circuits. In particular signal cross talk through the common chip …

CMP fill synthesis: A survey of recent studies

AB Kahng, K Samadi - Handbook of Algorithms for Physical …, 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
Chemical–mechanical polishing (CMP) is the planarizing technique of choice to satisfy the
local and global planarity constraints imposed by advanced lithography methods. The …

NCTU-GR: Efficient simulated evolution-based rerouting and congestion-relaxed layer assignment on 3-D global routing

KR Dai, WH Liu, YL Li - IEEE Transactions on very large scale …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing complexity of interconnection designs has enhanced the importance of
research into global routing when seeking high-routability (low overflow) results or rapid …

BoxRouter 2.0: A hybrid and robust global router with layer assignment for routability

M Cho, K Lu, K Yuan, DZ Pan - ACM Transactions on Design Automation …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
In this article, we present BoxRouter 2.0, and discuss its architecture and implementation. As
high-performance VLSI design becomes more interconnect-dominant, efficient congestion …

Global and detailed routing

HY Chen, YW Chang - Electronic Design Automation, 2009 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on routing, a process that determines the precise
paths for nets on the chip layout to interconnect the pins on the circuit blocks or pads at the …