Presentation 2015-05-14
NP-completeness of Routing Problem with Bend Constraint
Toshiyuki Hongo, Atsushi Takahashi,
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Abstract(in English) Self-Aligned Quadruple Patterning (SAQP) in which side-wall process is repeated twice is an important manufacturing technique to realize tiny routing pattern in next generation lithography, however, every routing pattern is not realized. In order to obtain SAQP feasible routing patterns, a routing pattern generation method in which a special 3-color grid is used was proposed. In the routing pattern generation method, routing is classified into three according to the manufacturing process of SAQP. Among them, routing corresponding to the last manufacturing process neither allow to branch off nor to bend at several grids. Therefore, an algorithm that obtains a path between two vertices that satisfies bend constraint is required to obtain a routing that corresponds to the last manufacturing process. In this paper, the problem deciding whether there exists a path that satisfies the bend constraint is proved to be NP-complete in general.
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Keyword(in English) Self-Aligned Quadruple Patterning / Bend Constraint / Routing Problem / NP-complete
Paper # VLD2015-3
Date of Issue 2015-05-07 (VLD)

Conference Information
Committee VLD / IPSJ-SLDM
Conference Date 2015/5/14(1days)
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Place (in English) Kitakyushu International Conference Center
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Topics (in English) System Design, etc.
Chair Toshiyuki Shibuya(Fujitsu Labs.) / Masahiro Fukui(Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Vice Chair Yusuke Matsunaga(Kyushu Univ.)
Secretary Yusuke Matsunaga(Mitsubishi Electric) / (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Assistant Takehiro Miyazawa(MMS) / Ryo Yamamoto(Mitsubishi Electric)

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Registration To Technical Committee on VLSI Design Technologies / Special Interest Group on System and LSI Design Methodology
Language JPN
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Title (in English) NP-completeness of Routing Problem with Bend Constraint
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Self-Aligned Quadruple Patterning
Keyword(2) Bend Constraint
Keyword(3) Routing Problem
Keyword(4) NP-complete
1st Author's Name Toshiyuki Hongo
1st Author's Affiliation Toyko Institute of technology(Tokyo Tech)
2nd Author's Name Atsushi Takahashi
2nd Author's Affiliation Toyko Institute of technology(Tokyo Tech)
Date 2015-05-14
Paper # VLD2015-3
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) VLD-21
Page pp.pp.13-18(VLD),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-05-07 (VLD)