標題: NCTU-GR 2.0: Multithreaded Collision-Aware Global Routing with Bounded-Length Maze Routing
作者: Liu, Wen-Hao
Kao, Wei-Chun
Li, Yih-Lang
Chao, Kai-Yuan
資訊工程學系
Department of Computer Science
關鍵字: global routing;maze routing;multithreaded routing;physical design;rip-up and reroute
公開日期: 1-五月-2013
摘要: Modern global routers employ various routing methods to improve routing speed and quality. Maze routing is the most time-consuming process for existing global routing algorithms. This paper presents two bounded-length maze routing (BLMR) algorithms (optimal-BLMR and heuristic-BLMR) that perform much faster routing than traditional maze routing algorithms. In addition, a rectilinear Steiner minimum tree aware routing scheme is proposed to guide heuristic-BLMR and monotonic routing to build a routing tree with shorter wirelength. This paper also proposes a parallel multithreaded collision-aware global router based on a previous sequential global router (SGR). Unlike the partitioning-based strategy, the proposed parallel router uses a task-based concurrency strategy. Finally, a 3-D wirelength optimization technique is proposed to further refine the 3-D routing results. Experimental results reveal that the proposed SGR uses less wirelength and runs faster than most of other state-of-the-art global routers with a different set of parameters [12], [16], [17], [20]. Compared to the proposed SGR, the proposed parallel router yields almost the same routing quality with average 2.71 and 3.12-fold speedup on overflow-free and hard-to-route cases, respectively, when running on a 4-core system.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2012.2235124
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/21646
ISSN: 0278-0070
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2012.2235124
期刊: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
Volume: 32
Issue: 5
起始頁: 709
結束頁: 722
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