{"title":"An Automated Design of Minimum-Area IC Power/Ground Nets","authors":"S. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1145/37888.37927","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Given tree topologies for routing power/ground (p/g) nets in integrated circuits, this paper formulates and solves the problem of determining the widths of the branches of the trees. Constraints are developed in order to maintain proper logic levels and switching speed, to prevent electromigration, and to satisfy certain design rule and regularity requirements. The area required by the p/g distribution system is minimized subject to these constraints. Some case studies are also presented.","PeriodicalId":301552,"journal":{"name":"24th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"27","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"24th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/37888.37927","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 27
Abstract
Given tree topologies for routing power/ground (p/g) nets in integrated circuits, this paper formulates and solves the problem of determining the widths of the branches of the trees. Constraints are developed in order to maintain proper logic levels and switching speed, to prevent electromigration, and to satisfy certain design rule and regularity requirements. The area required by the p/g distribution system is minimized subject to these constraints. Some case studies are also presented.