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8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07)
Planar-CRX: A Single-Layer Zero Skew Clock Routing in X-Architecture
San Jose, California
March 26-March 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2795-7
Weixiang Shen, Tsinghua University, China
Yici Cai, Tsinghua University, China
Xianlong Hong, Tsinghua University, China
Jiang Hu, Texas A&M University, USA
Bing Lu, Cadence Design Sys. Inc, USA
With its advantages in wirelength reduction and routing flexibility compared with Manhattan routing, X-architecture has been proposed and applied to modern IC design. As a critical part in high-performance integrated circuits, clock network design meets great challenges due to feature size decrease and clock frequency increase. In order to eliminate the delay and attenuation of clock signal introduced by the vias, and to make it more tolerant to process variations, in this paper, we propose an algorithm of a singlelayer zero skew clock routing in X-architecture(Planar- CRX). Our method integrates the extended Deferred-Merge Embedding algorithm (DME-X, which extends DME to X-architecture) with modified Ohtsuki?s line-search algorithm to minimize the total wirelength and the bends. Compared with planar clock routing in the Manhattan plane, our method achieves a reduction of 6.81% in total wire-length on average, and fewer bends. Experimental results also indicate that our solution is comparable with previous non-planar zero skew clock routing algorithm.
Citation:
Weixiang Shen, Yici Cai, Xianlong Hong, Jiang Hu, Bing Lu, "Planar-CRX: A Single-Layer Zero Skew Clock Routing in X-Architecture," isqed, pp.299-304, 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07), 2007
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