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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2012
William R. Griesbach, Pocono Lake, PA (US);
Clayton E. Schneider, Jr., Bethlehem, PA (US);
William R. Griesbach, Pocono Lake, PA (US);
Clayton E. Schneider, Jr., Bethlehem, PA (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for designing circuits, such as integrated circuits, that allow a designer to employ mixed cell libraries. In one embodiment, the system includes: () a cell placement EDA tool configured to transform a logical circuit representation into a physical circuit representation by placing cells from mixed cell libraries into clusters corresponding to the mixed cell libraries and () an interconnect routing EDA tool associated with the cell placement EDA tool and configured to route interconnects in buffer zones separating the clusters.