Via-configurable routing architectures and fast design mappability estimation for regular fabrics

  • Authors:
  • Yajun Ran;Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska

  • Affiliations:
  • Clear Shape Technologies, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA;Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe a new via-configurable routing architecture which shows a much better throughput and performance than the previous structures. We demonstrate how to construct a single-via-mask fabric to reduce the mask cost further, and we analyze the penalties which it incurs. To solve the routability problem commonly existing in fabric-based designs, an efficient white-space allocation and an incremental cell movement scheme are suggested, which help to provide a fast design convergence and early prediction of circuit's mappability to a given fabric.