The importance of adopting a package-aware chip design flow

  • Authors:
  • Kaushik Sheth;Egino Sarto;Joel McGrath

  • Affiliations:
  • Rio Design Automation, Santa Clara, CA;Rio Design Automation, Santa Clara, CA;Rio Design Automation, Santa Clara, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we talk about the short- and long-term implications of ignoring the relationship between the chip, package and PCB during I/O planning and how these issues will manifest themselves as we move toward 65 and 45nm technology.It also introduces a whole new approach to chip/package I/O planning and optimization. This new approach simultaneously synthesizes the entire interconnect from the I/O driver to the package ball and establishes an interconnect plan that is optimized for both chip and package.