A chip-package-board co-design methodology

  • Authors:
  • Hsu-Chieh Lee;Yao-Wen Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan;National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In today's IC production, the design processes of chips, packages, and boards are typically separate from each other. The lack of information from other domains causes significant design convergence problems and greatly reduces design quality. In this paper, we propose the first chip-package-board code-sign methodology that provides true bi-directional information interactions among the three design domains. The code-sign adopts a two-pass flow of board-package-chip followed by chip-package-board routing interactions to facilitate the overall design integration. Experimental results show that our code-sign flow succeeds in the routing for all test cases, while a traditional flow and two board-driven flows fail all cases.