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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2017
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Gracieli Posser, Austin, TX (US);
Wen-Hao Liu, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Wing-Kai Chow, Austin, TX (US);
Mehmet Can Yildiz, Austin, TX (US);
Zhuo Li, Austin, TX (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure address improved systems and methods for resolving single-entry constraint violations in hierarchical integrated circuit designs. In routing multi-pin nets of IC designs, the system employs a partition-entry-aware search algorithm to identify single-entry-violation-free routing results for two-pin nets, which are then combined to form routed multi-pin nets. The search algorithm is 'entry-aware' in that it penalizes multiple entries into a single partition. Consistent with some embodiments, the system may further employ a post fix stage to remove extra partition entries for the multi-pin nets with single-entry violations by choosing a main entry to enter a partition and rerouting the paths that cause the violations such that the paths share the main entry.