CAD tools for managing signal integrity and congestion simultaneously

Author

Mehrotra, Sharad ; Franzon, Paul ; Bilbro, Griff ; Steer, Michael

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

2-4 Nov 1994

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

32

Abstract

An efficient computer-aided approach is presented that manages delay, signal integrity and routing congestion simultaneously in Printed Circuit Boards and Multichip Modules. The approach is based on use of the Signal Integrity Advisor in conjunction with a global router. The tools have been developed as part of a complete design optimization tool-set spanning partitioning, placement, routing and re-routing. It is also shown how the Signal Integrity Advisor can be used to produce wiring rules for a conventional router

Keywords

circuit CAD; CAD tools; Signal Integrity Advisor; design optimization tool-set; global router; multichip modules; partitioning; placement; printed circuit boards; re-routing; routing congestion; signal integrity; wiring rules; Computational modeling; Delay; Design optimization; Engineering management; Equations; Printed circuits; Routing; Signal design; Signal processing; Wiring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Performance of Electronic packaging, 1994., IEEE 3rd Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2411-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPEP.1994.594061

Filename

594061