Untangling twisted nets for bus routing

  • Authors:
  • Tan Yan;Martin D. F. Wong

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Previous works [1], [2] on PCB bus routing assume matched pin ordering for both sides. But in practice, the pin ordering might be mismatched and the nets become twisted. In this paper, we propose a preprocessing step to untangle such twisted nets. We also present an algorithm to solve this untangling problem. Our algorithm produces an optimal single-detour routing scheme that rematches the pin ordering. By integrating our preprocessing step into the bus router in [2], we show that many routing problems that cannot be solved previously can now be solved with insignificant increase in runtime.