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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2019
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Harry Barowski, Schoenaich, DE;
Harald D. Folberth, Boeblingen, DE;
Joachim Keinert, Altdorf, DE;
Sourav Saha, Kolkata, IN;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/505 (2013.01); G06F 17/5072 (2013.01); G06F 17/5077 (2013.01); G06F 2217/66 (2013.01);
Abstract
Generating a layout of an integrated circuit chip area from a description of an integrated circuit (IC). The description includes a register-transfer-level (RTL) design. The RTL design is partitioned in large blocks for synthesis of large block synthesis (LBS) blocks. The description of the IC further includes a floorplan for the IC, wherein each LBS block to be synthesized is assigned to a respective rectilinear shape in the floorplan and the rectilinear shapes do not overlap each other.