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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2014
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael L. Rieger, Skamania, WA (US);
Mathias Boman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Naji V. Bekhazi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daniel D. Hung, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael G. Brashler, Tigard, OR (US);
Thomas Brett Hall, Portland, OR (US);
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the present invention overcome I/O bottlenecks of an EDA work flow by keeping layout data distributed during handoffs among different processing stages. Specifically, some embodiments leverage a concurrent computation paradigm where data is propagated incrementally between stages, and where data processing among consecutive stages and the I/O between stages are executed concurrently. Specifically, different data processing stages can partition the layout data differently, and portions of the layout data that are not required by a data processing stage can be either passed-through or passed-around the data processing stage.