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Title: | Global Routing in VLSI: Algorithms, Theory, and Computation |
Authors: | Dickson, Chris |
Advisor: | Deza, Antoine |
Department: | Computing and Software |
Keywords: | global routing, VLSI, Algorithms, Theory, Computation, design, optimization |
Publication Date: | May-2007 |
Abstract: | <p> Global routing in VLSI (very large scale integration) design is one of the most challenging discrete optimization problems in computational theory and practice. In this thesis, we present a polynomial time approximation algorithm for the global routing problem based on an integer programming formulation. The algorithm features a theoretical approximation bound, while ensuring all the routing demands are concurrently satisfied.</p> <p> We provide both a serial and a parallel implementation, as well as develop several heuristics to improve the quality of the solution and reduce running time. Our computational tests on a well-known benchmark set show that, combined with certain heuristics, our new algorithms perform very well compared with other integer programming approaches.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/21326 |
Appears in Collections: | Digitized Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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