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Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 02, 2014
Applicant:

Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Smita Bakshi, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Kenneth S. McElvain, Los Altos, CA (US);

Gael Paul, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/505 (2013.01); G06F 17/5045 (2013.01); G06F 2217/06 (2013.01); G06F 2217/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention includes a partitioner, a synthesizer, and an optimizer. The partitioner partitions a design into a hierarchy of partitions having a top-level partition and lower partitions. The lower partitions include a bottom-level partition. The top-level partition has top-level constraints. The synthesizer synthesizes the lower partitions hierarchically from the bottom-level partition to create lower partition netlists based on the top-level constraints. The optimizer optimizes a top-level netlist corresponding to the top-level partition from the lower partition netlists to satisfy the top-level constraints.


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