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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2000
Peter Dahl, Cupertino, CA (US);
Byron Dickinson, San Jose, CA (US);
Margie Levine, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul Rodman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Reshape, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for implementing a user interface for performing physical design operations on an integrated circuit netlist. The method includes accessing vertical and horizontal dimensions of an area of an integrated circuit netlist and accessing a grid for power and ground lines of the integrated circuit netlist. A view is presented of the grid to a user by a computer display. A plurality of blocks of cells of the integrated circuit netlist are accessed, wherein each block represents circuit components to be realized in physical form. The dimensions of the plurality of blocks to the grid such that the dimensions of the blocks align with the grid.