An area-maximum edge length tradeoff for VLSI layout

  • Authors:
  • Norbert Blum

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • STOC '84 Proceedings of the sixteenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

We construct an N-node graph G which has (i) a layout with area O(N) and maximum edge length O(N1/2), (ii) a layout with area O(N5/4) and maximum edge length O(N1/4). We prove for 1 ≤ f(N) ≤ O(N1/8) that any layout for G with area Nf(N) has an edge of length &Ohgr;(N1/2/f (N) •log N). Hence G has no layout which is optimal with respect to both measures.