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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2005
Applicants:
Juergen Dirks, Holzkirchen, DE;
Matthias Dinter, Holzkirchen, DE;
Ralf Leuchter, Munich, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 7/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for designing an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) splitting a design layout of the integrated circuit into a plurality of tiles, (B) adding a plurality of tie-to cells to the design layout, wherein at least one of the tie-to cells generating a tie-to signal at a particular logical level is added into each of the tiles having at least one gate with an input fixed to the particular logical level and (C) routing the tie-to signal to each of the inputs within each of the tiles.