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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
May. 07, 2012
Awartika Pandey, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Drazen Borkovic, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kenneth S. Mcelvain, Los Altos, CA (US);
Awartika Pandey, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Drazen Borkovic, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kenneth S. McElvain, Los Altos, CA (US);
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for designing at least one integrated circuit (IC). In one embodiment, the method comprises partitioning a circuit into portions that represent a partitioning solution and assigning traces to interconnect the portions to generate a trace assignment solution. The method further comprises optimizing the circuit through a modification of at least one of the partitioning solution and the trace assignment solution, the optimizing based on evaluating a design parameter which is based at least in part on the trace assignment solution.