The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2007
Veerbhan Kheterpal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lawrence T. Pileggi, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Dipti Motiani, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Veerbhan Kheterpal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lawrence T. Pileggi, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Dipti Motiani, Santa Clara, CA (US);
PDF Solutions Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system is described for mapping a system-level description of an integrated system directly to a technology-specific set of logic cells that are comprised primarily of large complex cells (bricks). The invention is based on applying aggressive Boolean operations that would be of impractical runtime complexity for a large library, but are applicable for the targeted brick libraries which typically contain a small number of complex cells, along with a much smaller number of simple cells. This invention is modular such that it can be applied in the context of incremental netlist optimization as well as optimization during physical synthesis.