Interconnect estimation and planning for deep submicron designs

J. Cong, D.Z. Pan
Proceedings 1999 Design Automation Conference (Cat. No. 99CH36361)  
This paper reports two sets of important results in our exploration of an interconnect-centric design ow for deep submicron DSM designs: i We obtain e cient yet accurate wiring area estimation models for optimal wire sizing OWS. We also propose a simple metric to guide area-e cient performance optimization; ii Guided by our interconnect estimation models, we study the interconnect architecture planning problem for wirewidth designs. We achieve a rather surprising result which suggests that two
more » ... re-determined wire widths per metal layer are su cient to achieve near-optimal performance. This result will greatly simplify the routing architecture and tools for DSM designs. We believe that our interconnect estimation and planning results will have a signi cant impact on DSM designs.
doi:10.1109/dac.1999.781368 fatcat:uomzlzngavdqpd2j3piweiwxp4