Channel routing of multiterminal nets

  • Authors:
  • Shaodi Gao;Michael Kaufmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Max-Planck-Institut fu¨r Informatik, Saarbru¨cken, Germany;Max-Planck-Institut fu¨r Informatik, Saarbru¨cken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

This paper presents new upper bounds for channel routing of multiterminal nets, which answers the long-standing open question whether or not multiterminal problems really require channels two times wider than 2-terminal problems. We transform any multiterminal problem of density d into a so-called extended simple channel routing problem (ESCRP) of density 3d/2+Odlog d . We then descibe routing algorithms for solving ESCRPs in three different models. The channel width w is ≤3d/2+Odlog d in the knock-knee and unit-vertical-overlap models, and w≤3d/2+O dlogd +Of in the Manhattan model, where f is the flux of the problem. In all three cases, we improve the best-known upper bounds.