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ASPDAC
1999
ACM
107views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 1999»
13 years 9 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...
TCAD
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Area fill synthesis for uniform layout density
Chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) and other manufacturing steps in very deep submicron VLSI have varying effects on device and interconnect features, depending on local character...
Yu Chen, Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Alexande...
VLSID
1999
IEEE
88views VLSI» more  VLSID 1999»
13 years 9 months ago
New and Exact Filling Algorithms for Layout Density Control
To reduce manufacturing variation due to chemicalmechanical polishing and to improve yield, layout must be made uniform with respect to density criteria. This is achieved by layou...
Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Anish Singh, Alex...
ISPD
2010
ACM
195views Hardware» more  ISPD 2010»
13 years 11 months 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
GECCO
2010
Springer
176views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
A hierarchical cooperative evolutionary algorithm
To successfully search multiple coadaptive subcomponents in a solution, we developed a novel cooperative evolutionary algorithm based on a new computational multilevel selection f...
Shelly Xiaonan Wu, Wolfgang Banzhaf