A Via Assignment and Global Routing Method for 2-Layer Ball Grid Array Packages

Yukiko KUBO
Atsushi TAKAHASHI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E88-A    No.5    pp.1283-1289
Publication Date: 2005/05/01
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DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.5.1283
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)
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Keyword: 
ball grid array,  monotonic routing,  via assignment,  wire congestion,  total wire length,  heuristic,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we propose a global routing method for 2-layer BGA packages. In our routing model, the global routing for each net is uniquely determined by a via assignment of each net. Our global routing method starts from an initial monotonic via assignment and incrementally improves the via assignment to optimize the total wire length and the wire congestion. Experimental results show that our proposed method generates a better global routing efficiently.

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