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Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008

Filed:

Mar. 20, 2006
Applicants:

Terry Borer, Toronto, CA;

David Karchmer, Los Altos, CA (US);

Jason Govig, San Jose, CA (US);

Andrew Leaver, Los Altos, CA (US);

Gabriel Quan, Toronto, CA;

Kevin Chan, Scarborough, CA;

Vaughn Betz, Toronto, CA;

Stephen D. Brown, Toronto, CA;

Inventors:

Terry Borer, Toronto, CA;

David Karchmer, Los Altos, CA (US);

Jason Govig, San Jose, CA (US);

Andrew Leaver, Los Altos, CA (US);

Gabriel Quan, Toronto, CA;

Kevin Chan, Scarborough, CA;

Vaughn Betz, Toronto, CA;

Stephen D. Brown, Toronto, CA;

Assignee:

Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for designing a system on a target device includes merging a post-fit netlist for a first partition of the system from a set-up compilation with a post-synthesis netlist for a second partition of the system from an incremental compilation to form a combined netlist. Fitting is performed on the combined netlist.


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