Preferred direction steiner trees

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1368-1372

  Yildiz, Mehmet Can ^a   Madden, Patrick H ^a  

^a State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

Author keywords

Interconnect synthesis; Optimization; Routing; Steiner tree

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; GEOMETRY; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VLSI CIRCUITS;

INTERCONNECT SYNTHESIS; LAYER ASSIGNMENT; ROUTING COSTS; STEINER TREE;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 0036864705     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2002.804105     Document Type: Article

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