Research Article

A Multilevel Congestion-Based Global Router

Table 3

Solution times and rounding results on the ISPD98 benchmark suite using (12) or a linear relaxation of (12).

Direct ILP LP Relaxation

Circuit Time (s) Time (s) % roundedOV from
rounding

ibm01 4 4 3.6 69
ibm02 20 21 3.6 188
ibm03 41 40 6.0 258
ibm04 35 33 4.5 321
ibm05 37 35 0.0 0
ibm06 54 49 3.1 276
ibm07 168 148 2.4 231
ibm08 173 160 2.5 216
ibm09 185 172 2.8 292
ibm10 343 308 2.0 269

Average 106 97 3.0 212