Main Contributions and Conclusions

Through this work, we performed a series of research projects to study the feasibility of 2.5-D integration from both cost and performance viewpoints. The main contributions are summarized below. 

A Series of 2.5-D Physical Design Tools Due to the complexity of modem ASIC designs, automatic EDA tools are critical for a successful layout implementation. For 2.5-D integrated ASIC systems, additional complexity is introduced by the large amount of inter-chip communication resource. To be able to pack an ASIC system in a 2.5-D space, we developed 2.5-D floorplanning, placement and 

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