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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:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Niichi Itoh, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/560 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/560 ;
Abstract
A wiring-capacitance improvement aid device aiding in eliminating a capacitance-attributable error of layout data generated by an automatic arrangement and routing tool includes a subject-net extraction portion extracting a subject net with a capacitance-attributable error, a network rip-up portion ripping up a cell netted within a predetermined range with respect to a subject net extracted by the subject-net extraction portion, and a constraint imposition portion imposing a wiring-capacitance constraint on a net connected to a cell ripped up by the network rip-up portion.