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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2003
Eric Nequist, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Jeffrey Scott Salowe, Cupertino, CA (US);
Steven Lee Pucci, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Eric Nequist, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Jeffrey Scott Salowe, Cupertino, CA (US);
Steven Lee Pucci, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of analyzing a design of an electronic circuit uses slices. The method includes generating one or more slices, each slice comprising a contiguous region of the design, and generating an set comprising one or more bins for each slice. A search for an object may be performed by determining a search area, and identifying slices containing at least a portion of the search area. For each identified slice, each object within the search area is associated with one of the bins of the set for the slice.