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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:
Jun. 13, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2003
Applicants:
Andrew B. Kahng, Del Mar, CA (US);
Christoph Albrecht, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ion I. Mandoiu, Storrs, CT (US);
Alexander Z. Zelikovsky, Roswell, GA (US);
Inventors:
Andrew B. Kahng, Del Mar, CA (US);
Christoph Albrecht, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ion I. Mandoiu, Storrs, CT (US);
Alexander Z. Zelikovsky, Roswell, GA (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system for evaluating a floorplan and for defining a global buffered routing for an integrated circuit including constructing a graphical representation of the integrated circuit floorplan, including wire capacity and buffer capacity; formulating an integer linear program from said graphical representation; finding a solution to said integer linear program.