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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

On the Three-Dimensional Channel Routing

Satoshi TAYU, Toshihiko TAKAHASHI, Eita KOBAYASHI, Shuichi UENO

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The 3-D channel routing is a fundamental problem on the physical design of 3-D integrated circuits. The 3-D channel is a 3-D grid G and the terminals are vertices of G located in the top and bottom layers. A net is a set of terminals to be connected. The objective of the 3-D channel routing problem is to connect the terminals in each net with a Steiner tree (wire) in G using as few layers as possible and as short wires as possible in such a way that wires for distinct nets are disjoint. This paper shows that the problem is intractable. We also show that a sparse set of ν 2-terminal nets can be routed in a 3-D channel with O(√ν) layers using wires of length O(√ν).

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E99-A No.10 pp.1813-1821
Publication Date
2016/10/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E99.A.1813
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Graphs and Networks

Authors

Satoshi TAYU
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
Toshihiko TAKAHASHI
  Niigata University
Eita KOBAYASHI
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
Shuichi UENO
  Tokyo Institute of Technology

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