Archer: A history-based global routing algorithm

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

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 528-540

  Ozdal, Muhammet Mustafa ^a   Wong, Martin D F ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion optimization; Global routing; Lagrangian relaxation; Steiner tree optimization

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; ROUTERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMMON PROBLEMS; CONGESTION OPTIMIZATION; GLOBAL ROUTERS; GLOBAL ROUTING; LAGRANGIAN RELAXATION; LARGE DESIGNS; LOCAL OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; LOCAL OPTIMUM; PHYSICAL DESIGNS; STEINER TREE OPTIMIZATION; WIRE LENGTH MINIMIZATIONS;

ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 62949084762     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2009.2013991     Document Type: Article

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