• DocumentCode
    2330201
  • Title

    Electromigration-aware rectilinear Steiner tree construction for analog circuits

  • Author

    Yan, Jin-Tai ; Chen, Zhi-Wei

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf., Chung-Hua Univ., Hsinchu
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    Nov. 30 2008-Dec. 3 2008
  • Firstpage
    1692
  • Lastpage
    1695
  • Abstract
    In this paper, given a set of n terminals including some current sources and some current sinks in a signal net, the maximum current density and the minimum wire width, a current-driven routing tree can be constructed to satisfy the current flow in Kirchhoffpsilas current laws. Furthermore, all the area-driven Steiner points are assigned to reduce the total wiring area based on the determination of current-driven wire widths. Finally, an electromigration-aware rectilinear Steiner tree (ERST) is constructed by assigning all the physical paths with current driven wire widths. Compared with the Lienigpsilas approach[7], the experimental results show that our proposed approach reduces 5.3%~10.4% total routing area for tested examples in reasonable CPU time.
  • Keywords
    analogue circuits; network routing; Kirchhoffpsilas current laws; analog circuits; area-driven Steiner points; current-driven routing tree; electromigration-aware rectilinear Steiner tree construction; Aluminum; Analog circuits; Copper; Current density; Electromigration; Electrons; Integrated circuit interconnections; Kirchhoff´s Law; Routing; Wire;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2008. APCCAS 2008. IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Macao
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2341-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2342-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APCCAS.2008.4746364
  • Filename
    4746364