Paper Info
Title
Package routability- and IR-drop-aware finger/pad planning for single chip and stacking IC designs
Abstract
Due to the increasing complexity of the design interactions between the chip and package, it is necessary to consider them at the same time. In order to simultaneously handle chip and package performances, co-design of chip and package is a widely adopted solution, particularly because the finger/pad locations significantly affect IR-drop of the core and the package routing. In this paper, we develop chip-package co-design techniques to determine the locations of the fingers/pads for package routability and signal integrity concerns in IC designs, this method can be used in the 2-D and stacking IC design. Our finger/pad assignment is a two-step method: we first solve the wire congestion problem in package routing, and then try to minimize the IR-drop violation and the length of the bonding wires under a compact IR-drop model. The experimental results are encouraging. Compared with the randomly optimized method, on average, our approaches reduce the maximum package density by 42% and 68% for both technologies, IR-drop by 10.61% and 4.58%; and the bonding wires is reduced by 15.66% if we use stacking chips.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.vlsi.2012.05.001
Integration
Keywords
Field
DocType
package routability,package routing,package performance,pad planning,bonding wire,ir-drop violation,compact ir-drop model,optimized method,two-step method,single chip,ic design,ir-drop-aware finger,maximum package density
Power network design,Quad Flat No-leads package,Computer science,Signal integrity,Chip,Electronic engineering,Integrated circuit design,Computer hardware,Stacking,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
46
3
0167-9260
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chao-Hung Lu1112.68
Hung-Ming Chen249359.19
Chien-Nan Jimmy Liu39727.07
Wen-Yu Shih440.77