We review the implications of subwavelength optical lithography for new tools and ows in the interface between layout design and manufacturability. After discussing the necessity ...
One subtask in constraint-driven placement is enforcing a set of orientation constraints on the devices being placed. Such constraints are created in order to, for example, implem...
Netlist partitioning is an important and well studied problem. In this paper, a linear time partitioning approach based on iterative deletion is presented. We use the partitioning...
- Route Embedding, a new method for mitigating the impact of crosstalk, is presented. It modifies a set of global-route structures to prevent timing and noise-margin violations ca...
—This paper studies a natural formulation of the timing-driven maze routing problem. A multigraph model appropriate for global routing applications is adopted; the model naturall...