Optimizing Decoupling Capacitors in 3D Circuits for Power Grid Integrity

  • Authors:
  • Pingqiang Zhou;Karthikk Sridharan;Sachin S. Sapatnekar

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities;University of Minnesota, Twin Cities;University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Design & Test
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Editor's note:This article studies one of the EDA problems for 3D IC design. The article presents a design automation solution for power grid optimization in 3D ICs. The authors propose a congestion-aware 3D power supply network optimization algorithm, which applies a sequence-of-linear-programs–based method to optimize the power grid design.—Yuan Xie, Pennsylvania State University