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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:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Devendra Vidhani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
Abstract
A method for facilitating the assignment of alternating voltage potentials to a set of shield wires in a routing layer of an integrated circuit involves generating a set of vertices representing at least a portion of the set of shield wires and of edges representing adjacency of at least the portion of the set of shield wires, minimizing a set of edges in the set of vertices to obtain a minimized set of vertices, and assigning a first indicator to one vertex of the minimized set of vertices.