Altera Corporation

XiangDong Tan

Brent Alan Fairbanks

Xiangyong Wang

A method and associated computer program product is provided for determining placement of I/O pins on an integrated circuit device. In an exemplary embodiment, a set of pins to be placed is partitioned into pin groups prior to placing individual pins. After partitioning the pins into pin groups, pin groups may, in a preferred embodiment, be ranked according to difficulty of placement. Pins in the most difficult group are placed first by applying a method that, in a preferred embodiment, places pins within the limits imposed by current density requirements while achieving high pin density within those limits when pad resources are relatively limited.

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