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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2015
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Stephane Colancon, Grasse, FR;
Gerard Tarroux, Villeneuve-Loubet, FR;
Mark Nitters, Le Rouret, FR;
Fabien Campana, Les Adrets de L'Esterel, FR;
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for electronic design automation. The method may include providing, using one or more computing devices, an electronic design. The method may further include receiving an indication that a cursor is hovering over an overlap associated with the electronic design and in response to receiving the indication, computing one or more via parameters, based upon, at least in part, a topology associated with the overlap. The method may also include displaying, at a graphical user interface, a potential via and allowing, at the graphical user interface, adjustments to the one or more via parameters.