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Patent No.:

US 6948145 B1

PDFFull Text
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Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005

Filed:

Feb. 14, 2003

Tool suite for the rapid development of advanced standard cell libraries employing the connection properties of nets to identify potential pin placements

Applicants:

Arnett J. Brown, Iii, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Robert J. Stalker, Haymarket, VA (US);

Rajen Naran Lakhani, Cary, NC (US);

Eric Wayne Neiderer, Newtown, PA (US);

Devin Bayles, Centreville, VA (US);

Inventors:

Arnett J. Brown, III, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Robert J. Stalker, Haymarket, VA (US);

Rajen Naran Lakhani, Cary, NC (US);

Eric Wayne Neiderer, Newtown, PA (US);

Devin Bayles, Centreville, VA (US);

Assignee:

BAE Systems and Information and Electronic Integration, Inc., Nashua, NH (US);

Attorney:

Swidler Berlin LLP

Primary Examiner:

Vuthe Siek

Assistant Examiner:

Helen Rossoshek

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/50 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A library tool suite supplements conventional design tools to increase the speed, automation and accuracy of creating physical designs for a library of cells to be used in chip designs. The tool suite may include a post operations tool, an audit tool, a custom interface, a setup file and a place and route model preparation utility which interact with the conventional tools and design data to automate and ensure integrity of the physical design process. The tool suite facilitates automatically generating libraries corresponding to an overall cell plan, generating attributes defining strength of connection between possible pin placements within a cell to facilitate routing inter-cell nets through a cell, and auditing cells for errors prior to inclusion in a manufacturing library.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Brown, III, Arnett. (2005). Tool suite for the rapid development of advanced standard cell libraries employing the connection properties of nets to identify potential pin placements (U.S. Patent No. 6948145). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6948145

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