| Title | Via-configurable routing architectures and fast design mappability estimation for regular fabrics |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2005 |
| Authors | Ran, Y, Marek-Sadowska, M |
| Conference Name | Computer-Aided Design, 2005. ICCAD-2005. IEEE/ACM International Conference on |
| Date Published | nov. |
| Keywords | circuit layout CAD, circuit mappability prediction, design mappability estimation, fast design convergence, network routing, single-via-mask fabric, via configurable routing architecture, white-space allocation scheme |
| Abstract | In this paper, we describe a new via-configurable routing architecture which shows much better throughput and performance than the previous structures. We demonstrate how to construct a single-via-mask fabric to reduce further the mask cost, and we analyze the penalties which it incurs. To solve the routability problem commonly existing in fabric-based designs, an efficient white-space allocation scheme is suggested, which provides a fast design convergence and early prediction of the circuit mappability to a given fabric. |
| DOI | 10.1109/ICCAD.2005.1560035 |
