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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2004
Salim Abid, Lafayette, CO (US);
Victor Z. Slonim, Broomfield, CO (US);
Salim Abid, Lafayette, CO (US);
Victor Z. Slonim, Broomfield, CO (US);
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of physical design for a programmable logic device can include associating target locations for movable objects with criticality measures and calculating the criticality measure for each target location. A probability for each target location can be calculated. The probability of the target location can be dependent upon the criticality measure for that target location. The method further can include selecting a target location for one of the movable objects for controlled movement during a simulated annealing process. The target location can be selected according to the probability corresponding to each target location.