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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2008
Dajen Huang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yi Wu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert R. Brown, Fremont, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A number of virtual regionalization lines are laid out across a chip such that the virtual regionalization lines delineate a plurality of regions on the chip. One of the plurality of regions on the chip is designated as a master region and each of a remainder of the plurality of regions on the chip is designated as a duplicate region. A number of functional blocks are placed in the master region. Each of the functional blocks is replicated in each duplicate region by placing each functional block in each duplicate region so as to be symmetric with the corresponding functional block in the master region about the virtual regionalization lines. Wires are routed in the master region. The wires routed in the master region are replicated in each duplicate region so as to be symmetric about the virtual regionalization lines.