A new interactive supply/demand router with rip-up capability for printed circuit boards

  • Authors:
  • E. Rosenberg

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ

  • Venue:
  • DAC '87 Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

In this router, an iterative, non-sequential “supply/demand” router attempts to find conflict-free (non-crossing or overlapping) paths for each net. If 100% interconnection is not achieved with supply/demand routing, the rip-up procedure removes enough nets to eliminate all conflicts. Nets that are ripped-up are returned to the supply/demand router for re-routing. The new router was compared to a Lee-type router on six double-sided boards, and on average obtained 6.8% higher completion.