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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jesse Surprise, Highland, NY (US);
Gerald Strevig, III, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Shawn Kollesar, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer program products for providing cross-hierarchical block pin placement are provided. Aspects include designating potential pin placements by aligning output pins of each of a first set of bottom-level hierarchical blocks positioned within one or more middle-level hierarchical blocks to an edge of a respective middle-level hierarchical block. Responsive to determining that each of a first subset of a second set of bottom-level hierarchical blocks having input pins that correspond to the output pins of the first set of bottom-level hierarchical blocks are positioned within a respective middle-level hierarchical block that has a cross hierarchical alignment, aspects include placing pins at one or more of the potential pin placements. Aspects also include placing a set of pins based on aligning input pins of a second subset of the second set of bottom-level hierarchical blocks to an edge of a respective middle-level hierarchical block.