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    Author(s)
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    Taeyoung Kim
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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    Gangmin Cho
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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    Youngsoo Shin
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Abstract

    Power net routing in analog design determines wire width and routing path such that routing area is minimized and IR-drop constraints imposed on the blocks are all satisfied. We propose two-stage routing, consisting of trial- and main-routing. In trial routing, RL is applied to find the routing path and wire width assuming bigger routing grids. In main routing, we take each net one-by-one and apply ILP to determine exact path along smaller grids, while the result from trial routing is respected. Experiments indicate that the proposed method yields on average of 12% smaller routing area compared to the state-of-the-art.