@inproceedings{08e3b3a87bcb43d6a16f0b008006aaaf,
title = "A novel and efficient method for power pad placement optimization",
abstract = "In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient iterative method for pad placement optimization of power grid with flip chip technology. Power grid with optimized pad placement has less IR-drop values. We develop a new method to calculate new locations of all pads. Placing pads at the new locations reduces local IR-drop values. In order to reduce global IR-drop values, we develop a graph-based strategy to decide which pads are moved to the new locations. After each movement of the pads, a static IR-drop analysis is performed. We develop multigrid accelerated modified Simulated Annealing method (MG-SA) and compare it with the proposed method on a set of test cases. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms MG-SA with similar or less IR-drop values and much less runtime.",
keywords = "IR-drop, pad placement, power grid",
author = "Ting Yu and Wong, {Martin D F}",
year = "2013",
month = jul,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1109/ISQED.2013.6523604",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781467349536",
series = "Proceedings - International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED",
pages = "158--163",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2013",
note = "14th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2013 ; Conference date: 04-03-2013 Through 06-03-2013",
}