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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1997
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A circuit element placement method and apparatus in which circuit elements can surely be placed in a short time even if a circuit scale is increased. For this purpose, there is sequentially executed a first step of determining placement coordinates of sequential logic circuit elements among many circuit elements to be placed and a second step of determining placement coordinates of circuit elements other than the sequential logic circuit elements with consideration given to the placement coordinates of the sequential logic circuit elements, determined in the first step. The method and apparatus are applicable at a time of design of an integrated circuit such as LSI, or a circuit on a printed wiring board.