Abstract
It is found that average interconnection lengths in a very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit that is functionally partitioned do not continue to increase as device sizes are scaled down and chips become more densely packed. Although pin requirements still increase, this increase is much smaller than expected from common expressions of Rent's Rule. These results suggest that the important dimension in VLSI is of information flow.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 39-42 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1985 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Instrumentation
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering