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Automatic router for the pin grid array package

1999; Volume: 146; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1049/ip-cdt

ISSN

1359-7027

Autores

S. -S. Chen, J. -J. Chen, Chia‐Chun Tsai, Sao‐Jie Chen,

Tópico(s)

Electromagnetic Compatibility and Noise Suppression

Resumo

A pin grid array (PGA) package router is described. Given a chip cavity with a number of I/O pads around its boundary and an equivalent number of pins distributed on the substrate, the objective of the router is to complete the planar interconnection of pad-to-pin nets on one or more layers. This router consists of three phases: layer assignment, topological routing and geometrical routing. Examples tested on a windows-based environment show that our router is efficient and can complete the routing task with less substrate layers. Compared to manual routing, this router has a user-friendly graphic interface and can be applied practically to industrial strength VLSI packaging.

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