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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2016
Ncku Research and Development Foundation, Tainan, TW;
Himax Technologies Limited, Tainan, TW;
Chia-Min Lin, Tainan, TW;
Te-Wei Peng, Tainan, TW;
Fa-Ta Chen, Tainan, TW;
Chia-Ching Huang, Tainan, TW;
NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Tainan, TW;
Himax Technologies Limited, Tainan, TW;
Abstract
A method of macro placement includes partitioning an entire region of a semiconductor chip into sub-regions; determining a packing sequence of a plurality of movable macros in the sub-region; extracting search points of a plurality of placed blocks in the sub-region with respect to one of the movable macros; determining a feasible region associated with the search point; packing said movable macro in the feasible region; evaluating a legalizing cost function; and determining whether a value of the evaluated legalizing cost function is less than a predetermined threshold value.