A Modified Genetic Channel Router

Akio SAKAMOTO  Xingzhao LIU  Takashi SHIMAMOTO  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E77-A   No.12   pp.2076-2084
Publication Date: 1994/12/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
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Keyword: 
genetic algorithms,  channel routing problem,  heuristics,  optimization problem,  

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Summary: 
Genetic algorithms have been shown to be very useful in a variety of search and optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a modified genetic channel router. We adopt the compatible crossover operator and newly designed compatible mutation operator in order to search solution space more effectively, where vertical constraints are integrated. By carefully selected fitness function forms and optimized genetic parameters, the current version speeds up benchmarks on average about 5.83 times faster than that of our previous version. Moreover the total convergence to optimal solutions for benchmarks can be always obtained.