The Oct-Touched Tile: A New Architecture for Shape-Based Routing

Ning FU
Shigetoshi NAKATAKE
Yasuhiro TAKASHIMA
Yoji KAJITANI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.2    pp.448-455
Publication Date: 2006/02/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.2.448
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Analog Circuit Techniques and Related Topics)
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Keyword: 
analog layout,  shape-based routing,  routing architecture,  tile,  

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Summary: 
The shape-based routing needs a routing architecture with a geometrical computation framework on it. This paper introduces a novel routing architecture, Oct-Touched Tile (OTT), with a geometrical computation method along the horizontal- and vertical-constraints. The architecture is represented by the tiles spreading over the 2-D plane. Each tile is flexible to satisfy the constraints imposed for non-overlapping and sizing request. In this framework, path finding and shape-based sizing are executed on the same architecture. In experiments, our system demonstrates the performance comparable to a commercial tool. In addition, we show potential of OTT by introducing several ideas of extensions to analog layout constraints.

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