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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2004
Applicants:
Hussein Etawil, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Krishna Belkhale, Saratoga, CA (US);
LU Sha, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan Frankle, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Hussein Etawil, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Krishna Belkhale, Saratoga, CA (US);
Lu Sha, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan Frankle, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and systems for formulating a wirelength estimate that takes into account whether any of the routing directions are unavailable. Under certain circumstances, one or more of the routing layers may not be available for routing a wire. If this occurs, then the bounding box that is determined for performing the wirelength estimate would take into account the unavailability of the layer.