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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2022
Applicant:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gracieli Posser, Austin, TX (US);
Mateus Paiva Fogaça, Porto Alegre, BR;
Wing-Kai Chow, Austin, TX (US);
Mehmet Can Yildiz, Austin, TX (US);
Charles Jay Alpert, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Assignee:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/398 (2020.01); G06F 30/31 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/398 (2020.01); G06F 30/31 (2020.01);
Abstract
Various embodiments provide for pin access location generation for one or more cells of a circuit design, which may be part of electronic design automation (EDA). Some embodiments facilitate pin access location generation by generating and using multiple graphs, which enable such embodiments to ensure that neighbor pins are not missed and to check for design rule violations.