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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2005
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);
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
An abutted-pin hierarchical physical design process is described. The abutted-pin hierarchical physical design provides solutions to the problems of the traditional hierarchical physical design and provides additional advantages and benefits. In particular, the abutted-pin hierarchical physical design does not have channels. Moreover, in the abutted-pin hierarchical physical design, components of the top-level are merged into the block-level so that the top-level netlist is reduced significantly.