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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:
Dec. 20, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2002
Applicants:
Andy H. Gan, San Jose, CA (US);
Nigel G. Herron, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Andy H. Gan, San Jose, CA (US);
Nigel G. Herron, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/50 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Method and apparatus for placement of vias is described. More particularly, source power and ground vias are placed in partial response to locations where conductive lines cross over a reserved region. The reserved region is reserved for an embedded device, and is reserved in a layout database of a host device.