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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2016
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Karun Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Henry Yu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Hainsworth, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kuoching Lin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jeff Taraldson, San Ramon, CA (US);
Hui Xu, Wexford, PA (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is an approach to implement snapping techniques that aid the interactive, assisted, or automatic placement of layout instances or groups of layout instances for generating a legal placement layout while reducing or entirely eliminating any subsequent or separate performance of design rule checking with respect to the relevant design rules, constraints, or requirements governing the legality of the instances or groups of instances placed in the placement layout.