Channel routing of multiterminal nets

Abstract

This paper presents a new algorithm for channel routing of multiterminal nets. We first transform any multiterminal problem of density d to a socalled extended simple channel routing problem (ESCRP ) of density 3d/2+O(√dlog d), which will then be solved with channel width w ≤3d/2+O(√dlog d) in the knock-knee model. The same strategy can be used for routing in the other two models: The channel width is w ≤ 3d/2+O(√dlog d)+O(f) in the Manhattan model, where f is the flux of the problem, and w ≤ 3d/2+O(√dlogd) in the unit-vertical-overlap model. In all three cases we improve the best known upper bounds.