• 文献标题:   A Global Routing Method for Graphene Nanoribbons Based Circuits and Interconnects
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DAS S, DAS DK, PANDIT S
  • 作者关键词:   carbon nanomaterial, graphene nanoribbon, global routing, hexagonal steiner tree
  • 出版物名称:   ACM JOURNAL ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS
  • ISSN:   1550-4832 EI 1550-4840
  • 通讯作者地址:   Acad Technol
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1145/3384214
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

With extreme miniaturization of traditional CMOS devices in deep sub-micron design levels, the delay of a circuit, as well as power dissipation and area are dominated by interconnections between logic blocks. Interconnect today is causing major problems such as delay, power dissipation, and so on. In an attempt to search for alternative materials, Graphene nanoribbons have been found to be potential for both transistors and interconnects due to its outstanding electrical and thermal properties. Graphene nanoribbons provide better options as materials used for global routing trees in VLSI circuits. However, certain special characteristics of Graphene nanoribbon prohibit direct application of existing VLSI routing tree construction methods. In this article, we address this issue and propose heuristic methods for construction of Graphene nanoribbon-based minimum hybrid cost and minimum-delay Steiner trees. We compute the delays for the trees using Elmore delay approximation. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods, which are quite encouraging.