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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2006
Daniel Douriet, Round Rock, TX (US);
Anand Haridass, Austin, TX (US);
Andreas Huber, Austin, TX (US);
Roger D. Weekly, Austin, TX (US);
Daniel Douriet, Round Rock, TX (US);
Anand Haridass, Austin, TX (US);
Andreas Huber, Austin, TX (US);
Roger D. Weekly, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for designing a power distribution system including: receiving a cross section file that contains the layout of a PCB including a location of one or more power sinks and sources on the PCB; creating an initial power distribution system; evaluating the initial power distribution system against a cost function; creating a new power distribution system; evaluating the new power distribution system against the cost function; determining if the cost function associated with the new power distribution system is equal to or greater than a stop criterion; and creating another new power distribution system if the cost function associated with the new power distribution system is greater than the stop criterion.