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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2002
Applicants:
Charles Jay Alpert, Round Rock, TX (US);
Rama Gopal Gandham, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Jiang HU, College Station, TX (US);
Stephen Thomas Quay, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Charles Jay Alpert, Round Rock, TX (US);
Rama Gopal Gandham, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Jiang Hu, College Station, TX (US);
Stephen Thomas Quay, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/50 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and data processing system for inserting buffers into integrated circuit routing trees are disclosed. The present invention dynamically modifies a Steiner tree configuration as needed to derive a maximal slack solution that takes into account blockages such as those presented by IP blocks.