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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2007
Sean C. O'brien, Dallas, TX (US);
Sean C. O'Brien, Dallas, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A design application improves design checking by utilizing a template. During the checking process, the design application divides the design layout into regions. To further improve processing speed, the design application utilizes the template. The template maps the location of the regions of a design layout during a checking process. The template comprises information such as the dimensions and location of the regions in human-readable form. Because the human-readable template is computationally simple to process, the design application may locate, divide, manage, and merge the regions of the design layout more quickly.