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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2008
Holger Wetter, Weil im Schoenbuch, DE;
Maarten Boersma, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Wilhelm Haller, Remshalden, DE;
Armin Windschiegl, Weil im Schoenbuch, DE;
Holger Wetter, Weil im Schoenbuch, DE;
Maarten Boersma, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Wilhelm Haller, Remshalden, DE;
Armin Windschiegl, Weil im Schoenbuch, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for creating layout and wiring diagrams for an integrated circuit (IC) includes a placement engine configured to receive a hierarchical schematic and to create a placed layout. The system also includes a flat layout engine configured to receive the hierarchical schematic and to create a flat layout and a back annotation engine coupled to the placement engine and the flat layout engine, the back annotation engine configured to receive the hierarchical placed layout and the flat unplaced layout and to create a flat placed layout there from.