NDLI: A resource-level parallel approach for global-routing-based routing congestion estimation and a method to quantify estimation accuracy

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Wen-Hao Liu Zhen-Yu Peng Ting-Chi Wang
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Cadence Design Syst., ICD, Austin, TX, USA (Wen-Hao Liu) \|\| Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan (Zhen-Yu Peng; Ting-Chi Wang)
Abstract	Routability has become a challenging issue with designs scaling down. Recently, global-routing-based routing congestion estimators (GRCEs) are widely used to detect the routability problems in the early VLSI design stages. To make GRCEs fast, using parallel routing approaches to speed up GRCEs is a promising direction. However, integrating existing parallel routing approaches into a GRCE may degrade the accuracy of the GRCE, because the routing kernel of the GRCE has to be modified such that its routing behavior changes. This paper presents a resource-level parallel approach (RPA) to accelerate GRCEs. RPA is easy to implement and has no need to change the routing kernels of GRCEs. Thus, GRCEs accelerated by RPA can keep its routing behavior and the estimation accuracy. Moreover, this paper presents an analytical method to quantify the estimation accuracy of a GRCE. Traditionally, the accuracy of a GRCE is manually measured by how they look like between the congestion maps generated by the GRCE and a real router, which may be inaccurate and time-consuming. In contrast, using the proposed quantifying method to evaluate the accuracy of a GRCE is more precise and faster.
Starting Page	389
Ending Page	396
File Size	4283158
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479962785
DOI	10.1109/ICCAD.2014.7001381
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-11-02
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Routing Accuracy Acceleration Nickel Dispatching Measurement Estimation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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