• DocumentCode
    2648618
  • Title

    Pin assignment for wire length minimization after floorplanning phase

  • Author

    He, Xu ; Dong, Sheqin

  • Author_Institution
    Tsinghua Nat. Lab. for Inf. Sci. & Technol., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    20-23 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1294
  • Lastpage
    1297
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we present a pin assignment algorithm which can be applied after floorplanning phase for wire length optimization. In order to reassign pins globally for all the nets, we formulate a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) for this problem. Since the MILP problem is a NP-hard problem, and the solution space is on a large scale, we introduce a simulated annealing algorithm to solve the MILP problem. The results show that our algorithm can further reduce the wire length by 10.22% within less than one minute averagely.
  • Keywords
    VLSI; circuit layout; integer programming; linear programming; floorplanning phase; mixed integer linear programming; pin assignment; simulated annealing; wire length minimization; Helium; Integrated circuit interconnections; Large-scale systems; Minimization methods; NP-hard problem; Pins; Routing; Simulated annealing; Space technology; Wire; MILP; Pin assignment; post-floorplanning; simulated annealing; wire length minimization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    ASIC, 2009. ASICON '09. IEEE 8th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Changsha, Hunan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3868-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3870-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ASICON.2009.5351234
  • Filename
    5351234