• DocumentCode
    2680033
  • Title

    Timing-driven Steiner tree construction for three-dimensional ICs

  • Author

    Yan, Jin-Tai ; Chen, Zhi-Wei ; Hu, Dun-Hao

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf., Chung-Hua Univ., Hsinchu
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    22-25 June 2008
  • Firstpage
    335
  • Lastpage
    338
  • Abstract
    Given a set of connecting nodes in a signal net on different layers for 3D ICs, based on the concept of hidden Steiner-point assignment on the same layer or different layers, a merging-based approach is proposed to construct a timing-driven 3D rectilinear Steiner tree. Compared with a spanning-tree-based approach, the experimental results show that our proposed approach has 9.7%~16% improvement in timing delay for the tested examples in reasonable CPU time.
  • Keywords
    integrated circuit design; integrated circuit interconnections; trees (mathematics); hidden Steiner-point assignment; three- dimensional IC; timing delay; timing-driven 3D rectilinear Steiner tree; timing-driven Steiner tree construction; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer science; Delay effects; Integrated circuit interconnections; Joining processes; Routing; Signal design; Steiner trees; Testing; Timing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems and TAISA Conference, 2008. NEWCAS-TAISA 2008. 2008 Joint 6th International IEEE Northeast Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, QC
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2331-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2332-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NEWCAS.2008.4606389
  • Filename
    4606389