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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2010
Applicants:
David Mallon, Edinburgh, GB;
Kenny Mackie, Edinburgh, GB;
Inventors:
David Mallon, Edinburgh, GB;
Kenny Mackie, Edinburgh, GB;
Assignee:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for resolving a circuit connection violation that comprises categorizing a circuit chain with the connection violation into a class, and performing one or more transformation algorithms on the circuit chain from the group consisting of a chain mirror, a cascade mirror, a cascade mirror permute, and a cut chain mirror algorithm based on the class of the circuit chain.