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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2013
Atrenta, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jitendra Gupta, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Ashima Dabare, Noida, IN;
Kshitiz Krishna, Noida, IN;
Sanjiv Mathur, Noida, IN;
Ravi Varadarajan, Fremont, CA (US);
Atrenta, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
This invention provides a method for detecting physical implementation hot-spots in a pre-placement integrated circuit design. The method first identifies physical issues at an object level. Physical issues include timing, routing congestion, clocking, scan, power, and thermal. The method then analyzes these physical issues over a collection of connected logic cell and large cell instances and determines a physical implementation hot-spot severity based on the number and severity of physical issues as well as the number of objects in the related collection.