Combinatorial algorithms for integrated circuit layout
Combinatorial algorithms for integrated circuit layout
A Unified Negative-Binomial Distribution for Yield Analysis of Defect-Tolerant Circuits
IEEE Transactions on Computers
On the effect of floorplanning on the yield of large area integrated circuits
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Yield and Routing Objectives in Floorplanning
DFT '98 Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Defect and Fault-Tolerance in VLSI Systems
Yield modeling and BEOL fundamentals
Proceedings of the 2001 international workshop on System-level interconnect prediction
Understanding metrics in logic synthesis for routability enhancement
Proceedings of the 2003 international workshop on System-level interconnect prediction
Prelayout interconnect yield prediction
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems - Special section on system-level interconnect prediction (SLIP)
Constructive Floorplanning with a Yield Objective
ISQED '01 Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design
Should Yield be a Design Objective?
ISQED '00 Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design
ZerehCache: armoring cache architectures in high defect density technologies
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
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The traditional goals of the floorplanning process for a new integrated circuit have been minimizing the total chip area and reducing the routing cost, i.e., the total length of the interconnecting wires. Recently, it has been shown that, for certain types of chips, the floorplan can affect the yield of the chip as well. Consequently, it becomes desirable to consider the expected yield, in addition to the cost of routing, when selecting a floorplan. The goal of this paper is to investigate the two seemingly unrelated, and often conflicting, objectives of yield enhancement and routing complexity minimization. We analyze the possible trade-offs between the two and then present a constructive algorithm for incorporating yield enhancement as a secondary objective into the floorplanning process, with the main objective still being the minimization of the overall routing costs.