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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bijian Chen, Austin, TX (US);
David J. Hathaway, Underhill, VT (US);
Nathaniel D. Hieter, Clinton Corners, NY (US);
Kerim Kalafala, Rhinebeck, NY (US);
Jeffrey S. Piaget, Red Hook, NY (US);
Alexander J. Suess, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Managing virtual boundaries to enable lock-free concurrent region optimization, including: receiving a model of an integrated circuit ('IC'); dividing the model into a plurality of regions, wherein none of the plurality of regions overlap with another region; assigning each of the plurality of regions to a thread of execution, wherein each thread of execution utilizes a shared memory space; and optimizing, by each thread in parallel, the assigned region.