An important part of the integrated circuit design process is the channel routing stage, which determines how to interconnect components that are arranged in sets of rows. The channel routing problem has been shown to be NP-complete, thus this problem is often solved using genetic algorithms. The traditional objective for most channel routers is to minimize total area required to complete routi...

Integrated circuit design is entering an era of truly nanoscale transistors with minimum device geometries now at 32nm and soon to be at 25nm. While actual transistor and logic gate sizes are many times the minimum lengths possible, logic elements are becoming increasingly small and more closely packed together. There is now an increasing possibility of getting coupling errors where nearby logi...

Three-dimensional integration technologies have been proposed in order to mitigate design challenges posed by deep-submicron interconnect. By providing multiple layers of active devices together with high-density local interconnects between these layers, 3-D technologies give digitalcircuit designers greater freedom in meeting power and delay budgets that are increasingly interconnect-dominated...

A use for programmable logic is presented targeting microelectronic circuit test engineering education. These devices offer strengths in cost, time and flexibility in an educational environment. The rationale for this work is to support electronic hardware design, fabrication and test for mixed-signal integrated circuits typically used in mixed-technology systems.

To achieve higher performing systems, microelectronic system designers should consider the e ects of packaging while developing integrated circuits (ICs). This practice, which we call \Design for Packageability", should permit a global optimization of the entire system by incorporating critical packaging factors into the IC design ow. Managers and engineers must be able to perform an early anal...

This paper presents the evaluation and fine-tuning of different values of genetic operators in the process of optimizing the designs of the integrated circuits. Due to the increasing usage of the evolutionary optimization in the area of the integrated circuit design, there is a need to find a proper combination of genetic operators parameters’ value. We investigated the interdependence of vario...