Title :
OPRON: a new approach to planar OTC routing
Author :
Danda, S. ; Madhwapathy, S. ; Sherwani, N. ; Sureka, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Abstract :
In this paper we solve the planar over-the-cell routing problem, in which nets must have at least one terminal on the boundary. Such nets allow for nontraditional cell designs, where all terminals must be placed on the boundaries giving a degree of freedom to the cell designer. We present a dynamic programming algorithm that optimally solves this problem, in O(K2n4) time, where K is the number of tracks available over the cell for a given cell row region, and n is the number of nets to be routed
Keywords :
VLSI; circuit layout CAD; dynamic programming; integrated circuit layout; network routing; OPRON; VLSI layout; dynamic programming algorithm; planar OTC routing; planar over-the-cell routing; Computer science; Indium phosphide; Routing; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI, 1995. Proceedings., Fifth Great Lakes Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Buffalo, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7035-5
DOI :
10.1109/GLSV.1995.516054