Semiconductor International, April 1st, 2005
The concept behind X Architecture is not new--the ancient Greeks knew it well: A straight line is the shortest distance between two points. As Ketan Joshi, director of marketing, X Initiative, at Cadence Design Systems (San Jose), put it, "If yon want to go from point a to b on two corners of a chip, using the orthogonal Manhattan design you'd normally go along vertical metal layers, then along the horizontal. If you went through a diagonal instead, it'd be a much shorter path--less wire (Fig. 1)." That is tire idea behind X Architecture--X expressing the fact that 45 [degrees] lines going i...
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