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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:
May. 03, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1990
Dale M Wong, San Francisco, CA (US);
VLSI Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Inter-area connectors are optimally placed on peripheries of bounded areas within an integrated circuit. Once circuit components are placed upon the integrated circuit, global optimum paths for connector lines between signal connectors within all the circuit components are calculated. This may be performed by calculating a global optimum rectilinear spanning tree for each net of signal connectors. Once the global optimum paths are calculated, inter-area connectors are placed at each location on a periphery of any of the circuit components where a global optimum path crosses the periphery. Finally, connector lines may be placed along the global optimum paths. For signal connectors and inter-area connectors within each circuit component, internal connector lines are routed between signal connectors along the global optimum paths within the circuit component. Also, between the circuit components, inter-area connector lines are routed between inter-area connectors along the global optimum paths.
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