The repeater tree construction problem

A tree-like substructure on a computer chip whose task it is to carry a signal from a source circuit to possibly many sink circuits and which consists only of wires and so-called repeater circuits is called a repeater tree. We present a mathematical formulation of the optimization problems related to the construction of such repeater trees. Furthermore, we prove theoretical properties of a simple iterative procedure for these problems which was successfully applied in practice.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: IPL
• Authors: Christoph Bartoschek, Stephan Held, Jens Maßberg, Dieter Rautenbach, Jens Vygen
• Keywords: IPL 2010, Repeater Trees, Simple Iterative Procedure, So-called Repeater Circuits