Pin assignment for high-performance MCM systems

A very fast and efficient pin assignment strategy and algorithm for the early design phase of high-performance Multi-Chip-Modules (MCM) is proposed, which minimizes total wire length, white satisfying the timing constraints. Different delay models are used for on- and off-chip nets for an accurate delay estimation. The proposed pin assignment methodology is applied to a Superscalar Microprocessor design partitioned on an MCM to show that the final design most likely converges to a good result with only a few iterations