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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. 14, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Venkateswaran ('Venky') Ramachandran, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Avant! Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39550015 ; 39550014 ;
Abstract
The present invention includes a method for automatically reconstructing most of the power, ground and clock prerouting without significant user involvement. This enables several floorplans to be tried concurrently in a batch mode. The method automatically migrates many floorplans in increments to find the best result for each starting floorplan. The user is then free to select a floorplan that looks best from the candidates generated with all the special net routing patterns already considered and updated for each.