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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:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2002
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an interactive floor planner apparatus for determining a placement position of functional blocks, in which apparatus functional block information including information on pins and connection information on pin connection between the functional blocks are defined, the apparatus comprising: a functional block shape extracting unit for dividing each of the functional blocks into one or a plurality of divided pieces on the basis of shape of the functional block obtained from the functional block information; an inter-functional block connection calculating unit for calculating a number of connections between pins belonging to divided pieces of two functional blocks connected to each other, between the divided pieces, as a number of connections between the divided pieces on the basis of the connection information; and a ratsnest display unit for displaying the connections between the divided pieces as a combined single line having a line width corresponding to the number of connections between the divided pieces.
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