Title :
Pin assignment for high-performance MCM systems
Author :
Harvatis, Christoforos ; Tekmen, Yusuf C. ; Bilbro, Griff L. ; Franzon, Paul D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
Abstract :
A very fast and efficient pin assignment strategy and algorithm for the early design phase of high-performance Multi-Chip-Modules (MCM) is proposed, which minimizes total wire length, white satisfying the timing constraints. Different delay models are used for on- and off-chip nets for an accurate delay estimation. The proposed pin assignment methodology is applied to a Superscalar Microprocessor design partitioned on an MCM to show that the final design most likely converges to a good result with only a few iterations
Keywords :
integrated circuit design; microprocessor chips; multichip modules; delay model; design partitioning; high-performance MCM; off-chip net; on-chip net; pin assignment algorithm; superscalar microprocessor; timing; wire length minimization; Algorithm design and analysis; Delay estimation; Microprocessors; Partitioning algorithms; Pins; Routing; Signal design; System performance; Timing; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1996. ISCAS '96., Connecting the World., 1996 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3073-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1996.542138
