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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2005
Eitan Cadouri, Cupertino, CA (US);
Krzysztof A. Kozminski, San Jose, CA (US);
Haifang Liao, San Jose, CA (US);
Kenneth Mednick, San Jose, CA (US);
Roland Ruehl, San Carlos, CA (US);
Mark A. Snowden, Cary, NC (US);
Eitan Cadouri, Cupertino, CA (US);
Krzysztof A. Kozminski, San Jose, CA (US);
Haifang Liao, San Jose, CA (US);
Kenneth Mednick, San Jose, CA (US);
Roland Ruehl, San Carlos, CA (US);
Mark A. Snowden, Cary, NC (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is an improved method and system for processing the tasks performed by an EDA tool in parallel. The IC layout is divided into a plurality of layout windows and one or more of the layout windows are processed in parallel. Sampling of one or more windows may be performed to provide dynamic performance estimation.