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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:
May. 21, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 29, 2015
Applicant:

Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Inventor:

Gerald Suiter, Madison, AL (US);

Assignee:

Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01); H05K 3/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5072 (2013.01); G06F 17/5009 (2013.01); G06F 17/5081 (2013.01); G06F 17/50 (2013.01); G06F 17/5018 (2013.01); G06F 17/5068 (2013.01); H05K 1/0298 (2013.01); H05K 3/46 (2013.01);
Abstract

This application discloses a computing system implementing tools and mechanisms to generate a composite solid model for a set of parts and utilize the composite solid model during the layout process. The tools and mechanisms can identify multiple parts available for inclusion in a circuit design, combine component models corresponding to the multiple parts into a composite solid model, and place the composite solid model in the layout representation of the circuit design. The composite solid model can have physical dimensions that overlap with physical dimensions of the component models corresponding to the multiple parts.


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