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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2005
Gregor J. Martin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ying Chun He, Milpitas, CA (US);
Grant Lindberg, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Gregor J. Martin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ying Chun He, Milpitas, CA (US);
Grant Lindberg, Pleasanton, CA (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for defining valid placement of intellectual property (IP) blocks within a platform application specific integrated circuit comprising the steps of (A) extracting IP recorded information for an intellectual property (IP) block to be placed on a platform application specific integrated circuit, (B) extracting device data for the platform application specific integrated circuit and (C) determining one or more valid placement locations for the intellectual property (IP) block based upon the IP recorded information and the device data.