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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:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2006
Applicants:
Terry Borer, Toronto, CA;
Andrew Leaver, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Karchmer, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gabriel Quan, Toronto, CA;
Stephen D. Brown, Toronto, CA;
Inventors:
Terry Borer, Toronto, CA;
Andrew Leaver, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Karchmer, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gabriel Quan, 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); G06F 9/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for designing a system on a target device includes merging a netlist for a first partition of the system generated from a bottom-up design flow with a netlist for a second partition of the system from a top-down design flow to form a combined netlist, and performing fitting on the combined netlist.