id: 00983202 dt: j an: 00983202 au: Lim, Andrew ti: Minimum area joining of k compacted cells. so: Inf. Process. Lett. 58, No.6, 265-269 (1996). py: 1996 pu: Elsevier Sciences Publishers (North-Holland), Amsterdam la: EN cc: ut: VLSI design; Single layer routing; Compacted cells; Algorithms ci: li: doi:10.1016/0020-0190(96)00057-9 ab: Summary: We study the problem of joining k compacted cells in a row. We propose an $O(n^{2})$ algorithm for the joining of k compacted cells problem if the stretching on one side of a cell does not affect the other side of the cell. If the stretching on one side of a cell affects the other side, we obtain a linear time algorithm for minimum area joining when all the channel densities between cells are known. rv: