Process · Physical Design & Signoff
ECO route (Engineering Change Order routing)
Incremental routing that connects newly added or modified instances while leaving existing routes untouched wherever possible, so that previously signed-off timing and parasitics remain largely valid.
- Also known as
- Incremental route
- Type
- Process
- Domain
- Physical Design & Signoff, ECO
Notes
Tight ECO routes often need rip-up of neighbours, which is exactly the disturbance the flow is trying to avoid.
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