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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 03, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Diwesh Pandey, Bangalore, IN;

Christian Schulte, Boeblingen, DE;

Gustavo E Tellez, Essex Junction, VT (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5077 (2013.01);
Abstract

A global router determines edge capacity of global tiles for a first integrated circuit. The global router determines a respective edge capacity of minimum width wire tracks for each of a plurality of global tiles in a first metal layer in the first integrated circuit. Next, the global router determines a respective edge capacity of non-minimum width wire tracks for each of the plurality of global tiles in the first metal layer in the first integrated circuit. The edge capacities for minimum width and non-minimum width wire tracks are determined in separate operations.


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