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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2001
Yaacov I. Greidinger, Herzia, IL;
David S. Reed, Los ALtos, CA (US);
Ara Markosian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Stephen P. Sample, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jonathan A. Frankle, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Hasmik Lazaryan, Yerevan, AM;
Monterey Design Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An automated method of designing large digital integrated circuits using a software program to partition the design into physically realizable blocks and then create the connections between blocks so as to maximize operating speed and routability while minimizing the area of the resulting integrated circuit. Timing and physical constraints are generated for each physically realizable block so that standard-cell place and route software can create each block independently as if it were a separate integrated circuit.