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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2016
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Mani Viswanath, Austin, TX (US);
Thomas Mitchell, Austin, TX (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for designing a circuit. The method may include obtaining a register-transfer level (RTL) file for an integrated circuit. The method may further include generating, using an RTL-Synthesis compiler and from the RTL file, a gate-level netlist including a plurality of cells for the integrated circuit. The method may further include determining, using a cross-probe criterion, an amount of cross-correlation between a first cell and a second cell in the gate-level netlist. The method may further include generating, in response to the amount of cross-correlation exceeding a correlation threshold, a cell group including the first cell and the second cell. The method may further include determining a boundary condition for the cell group. The method may further include generating a floorplan. The first cell and the second cell may be placed in the floorplan according to the boundary condition.