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ASPDAC
1999
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
New Multilevel and Hierarchical Algorithms for Layout Density Control
Certain manufacturing steps in very deep submicron VLSI involve chemical-mechanical polishing CMP which has varying e ects on device and interconnect features, depending on loca...
Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Anish Singh, Alex...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Provably good and practically efficient algorithms for CMP dummy fill
Abstract--To reduce chip-scale topography variation in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process, dummy fill is widely used to improve the layout density uniformity. Previous res...
Chunyang Feng, Hai Zhou, Changhao Yan, Jun Tao, Xu...
TOG
2002
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13 years 5 months ago
Ordered and quantum treemaps: Making effective use of 2D space to display hierarchies
Treemaps, a space-filling method of visualizing large hierarchical data sets, are receiving increasing attention. Several algorithms have been proposed to create more useful displ...
Benjamin B. Bederson, Ben Shneiderman, Martin Watt...
ISPD
2010
ACM
195views Hardware» more  ISPD 2010»
14 years 24 days ago
Density gradient minimization with coupling-constrained dummy fill for CMP control
In the nanometer IC design, dummy fill is often performed to improve layout pattern uniformity and the post-CMP quality. However, filling dummies might greatly increase intercon...
Huang-Yu Chen, Szu-Jui Chou, Yao-Wen Chang