escape routing of mixed-pattern signals based on staggered-pin- array pcbs k. wang, h. wang and s....
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Escape Routing of Mixed-Pattern Signals Based on Staggered-Pin-Array PCBs
K. Wang, H. Wang and S. Dong
Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, China
ISPD 2013
Outline
Introduction Preliminaries Problem Formulation The Mixed-Pattern Escape Routing Algorithm Experimental Results Conclusion
Introduction
High speed PCB routing has become more and more difficult for manual design due to increased pin count and dwindling routing resource.
Pin array Grid pin array (GPA) Staggered pin array (SPA)
SPA can increase pin density greatly under the same area.
Introduction
GPA
Single-pattern escape routing
SPA
Single-pattern escape routing
SPA
Mixed-pattern escape routing
Introduction
Solve differential-pair routing and single-signal routing separately
Optimize both differential-pair and single-signal routing
Preliminaries
Tile network
Staggered pin array Tile network
Problem Formulation
Given An mxn staggered pin array Differential pairs and single signals to be routed to the bou
ndary Design rules including wire length matching of differential
pairs, non-crossing rules Capacity constraints
Objective Escape all marked pins to the array boundary with minimiz
ed total wire length. No design rule is violated.
The mixed-pattern escape routing algorithm
Differential Pair Pre-conditioning
Different from single signals, the pins of differential pairs have more constraints
The routing of differential pairs should satisfy the length-matching rule.
Differential pair protection constraint: In order to avoid signal crosstalk, before the two wires from the two pins of differential pair meet with each other, no other signal is allowed to be close to.
Differential Pair Pre-conditioning
illegal legal
Median point searching algorithm
Case 1:
ya=yb
Case 2:
xa=xb
|ya-yb| is not
multiple of 4
Case 3:
xa=xb
|ya-yb| is multi
ple of 4
Median point searching algorithm
Median point searching algorithm
Simultaneously median point and shortest pin-median-point path determination
The differential pairs can be classified into K groups according to the crossing possibility of path candidates.
Routing Network
S0
SS
SD
Median point
St
1
1|TD|
|PS|
|TD|+|PS|
|TD|+|PS|
1
ILP formulation
Source constraint
Sink constraint
ILP formulationDP flow conservation constraint
Single signals flow conservation constraint
Capacity constraint
DP protection constraint
Slice-based MPER Algorithm
Slice-based MPER Algorithm
Partition into apartNum regions
DPs and single signals are classified into each region
Generate routing network for each region and solve the ILP
Failed signals will be redistributed into nearby region which has the most routing resource
Experimental Results
Experimental Results
Conclusion
This paper proposed an algorithm for escape routing of simultaneously differential pairs and single signals on staggered pin array based PCB.
Experimental results show that the proposed method can solve both single-pattern and mixed-pattern effectively.