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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2005

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2002
Applicants:

Balamurugan Balasubramanian, Mountain View, CA (US);

Juergen Lahner, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Srinivas Adusumalli, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Balamurugan Balasubramanian, Mountain View, CA (US);

Juergen Lahner, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Srinivas Adusumalli, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/50 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of estimating congestion for register transfer level code includes steps for receiving as input a floor plan mapped from the register transfer level code, identifying regions in the floor plan, computing routing demand numbers for the regions in the floor plan, computing routing resource numbers for the regions in the floor plan, and generating a congestion estimate of the register transfer level code as a function of the routing demand numbers and the routing resource numbers.


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