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The Graphic Application of Random Channel Specifications

Qionghua TanTan, Jinshan Xie, Zhenghua Xu

Abstract


Channel routing is a key problem in the area of VLSI layout. Finding a minimum width solution of channel routing was proved to be NP-hard by Szyman-ski. In this paper, we come to a conclusion that the minimum parallel clique cover of CCG is equivalent to the optimal solution of 2-layer manhattan channel routing where vertical constrains are noncyclic and extra empty columns and doglegs are not allowed. The same is true for the minimum parallel stable set cover of MCCG. We also give a new heuristic algorithm based on the result to solve the problem of 2-layer manhattan channel routing. In general, comparing with the merging algorithm, our algorithm saves the storage space of about 50%.

Keywords


Channel routing; Manhattan model; VLSI layout; Graph.

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