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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2000
Salil R. Raje, San Jose, CA (US);
Lawrence T. Pileggi, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Dinesh D. Gaitonde, San Mateo, CA (US);
Olivier R. Coudert, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jackson David Kreiter, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Monterey Design Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for a physical “sign-off” prototype tool that includes a prototype tool that generates a physical prototype for a design and a optimization tool that provides a designer with the option to further optimize the physical prototype before signing off on the design. In either situation, the “sign-off” prototype provides a forward prediction of the area, timing and performance of the final GDS of the design generated by a physical implementation tool.