A Novel Timing-Driven Global Routing Algorithm Considering Coupling Effects for High Performance Circuit Design

Jingyu XU
Xianlong HONG
Tong JING
Yici CAI
Jun GU

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E86-A    No.12    pp.3158-3167
Publication Date: 2003/12/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: Place and Routing
Keyword: 
high performance design,  global routing,  timing-driven,  coupling effects,  

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Summary: 
As the CMOS technology enters the very deep submicron era, inter-wire coupling capacitance becomes the dominant part of load capacitance. The coupling effects have brought new challenges to routing algorithms on both delay estimation and optimization. In this paper, we propose a timing-driven global routing algorithm with consideration of coupling effects. Our two-phase algorithm based on timing-relax method includes a heuristic Steiner tree algorithm to guarantee the timing performance of the initial solution and an optimization algorithm based on coupling-effect-transference. Experimental results are given to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the algorithm.