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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2006
Qi Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Ranganathan Sankaralingam, Noida, IN;
Qi Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Ranganathan Sankaralingam, Noida, IN;
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A circuit design synthesis method is provided comprising: associating a first cell library with a first block of a circuit design; associating a second cell library with a second block of the circuit design; specifying at least one constraint upon the overall circuit design; mapping a portion of the first block to a cell in the first cell library based upon the at least one constraint in view of a step of mapping a portion of the second block to a cell in the second cell library; and mapping a portion of the second block to a cell in the second cell library based upon the at least one constraint in view of the step of mapping a portion of the first block to a cell in the first cell library.