Topology for Substrate Routing in Semiconductor Package Design
arXiv:2105.07892 · doi:10.1016/j.cad.2022.103269
Abstract
In this work, we propose a new signal routing method for solving routing problems that occur in the design process of semiconductor package substrates. Our work uses a topological transformation of the layers of the package substrate in order to simplify the routing problem into a problem of connecting points on a circle with non-intersecting straight line segments. The circle, which we call the Circular Frame, is a polygonal schema, which is originally used in topology to study the topological structure of 2-manifolds. We show through experiments that our new routing method based on the Circular Frame competes with certain grid-based routing algorithms.
24 pages, 22 figures, 3 tables