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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2008
Michael W. Dotson, Binghamton, NY (US);
Anthony Degroff Drumm, Rochester, MN (US);
Dazhuang J. MA, White Plains, NY (US);
Ruchir Puri, Baldwin Place, NY (US);
Louise H. Trevillyan, Katonah, NY (US);
Michael W. Dotson, Binghamton, NY (US);
Anthony DeGroff Drumm, Rochester, MN (US);
Dazhuang J. Ma, White Plains, NY (US);
Ruchir Puri, Baldwin Place, NY (US);
Louise H. Trevillyan, Katonah, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for parallel processing of semiconductor chip designs. One embodiment of a method for processing a semiconductor chip design includes flattening a netlist corresponding to the semiconductor chip design, performing logic clustering on one or more logic elements incorporated in the flattened netlist to generate one or more clusters, partitioning the semiconductor chip design in accordance with the one or more clusters, and designing the individual partitions in parallel.