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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Awartika Pandey, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Drazen Borkovic, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kenneth S. McElvain, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/505 (2013.01); G06F 17/5072 (2013.01); G06F 17/5077 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for circuit design are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining a distribution of nets of a circuit, the distribution of the nets comprising numbers of blocks that each of the nets has in each of a plurality of partitions of the circuit in a partitioning solution, moving a first block of the circuit from a source partition to a destination partition to modify the partitioning solution, and updating the distribution of the nets after the moving.