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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2015
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Kenneth Ferguson, Edinburg, GB;
Jean-Marc Bourguet, Puget-sur-Argens, FR;
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems and methods that allow a layout editor function, presented in a graphical user interface, of an EDA, to indicate certain layout instances or 'cell views' as 'transparent.' The instances are indicated as transparent using various layout editor commands or layout designer markers. Unlike conventional solutions, a binder within the layout editor of the EDA is not required to bind layout transparent instances to corresponding instances in a related schematic design file or records. Instead, the EDA may identify non-transparent instances at a lower-level of the layout design's hierarchy to bind, because the systems and methods described herein provide for a transparent instance container at a hierarchically higher-level.