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Number: 716/8
Name: Data processing: design and analysis of circuit or semiconductor mask > Circuit design > Floorplanning
Description: Subject matter comprising means or steps for enabling exact judgment of accommodation feasibility of using circuit block units or cells on a layout area of an LSI or PCB at the initial designing stage.


Sub-classes under this class:

Class Number Class Name Patents
716/10 Constraint-based placement (e.g., critical block assignment, delay limits, wiring capacitance) 1,151
716/9 Detailed placement (i.e., iterative improvement) 690
716/11 Layout editor (e.g., updating) 1,018


Patents under this class:

Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7617467 Electrostatic discharge device verification in an integrated circuit Nov. 10, 2009
7617465 Method and mechanism for performing latch-up check on an IC design Nov. 10, 2009
7614025 Method of placement for iterative implementation flows Nov. 3, 2009
7614024 Method to implement metal fill during integrated circuit design and layout Nov. 3, 2009
7607112 Method and apparatus for performing metalization in an integrated circuit process Oct. 20, 2009
7603643 Method and system for conducting design explorations of an integrated circuit Oct. 13, 2009
7603641 Power/ground wire routing correction and optimization Oct. 13, 2009
7603640 Multilevel IC floorplanner Oct. 13, 2009
7603637 Secure, stable on chip silicon identification Oct. 13, 2009
7596774 Hard macro with configurable side input/output terminals, for a subsystem Sep. 29, 2009
7594206 Fault detecting method and layout method for semiconductor integrated circuit Sep. 22, 2009
7594205 Interface configurable for use with target/initiator signals Sep. 22, 2009
7594196 Block interstitching using local preferred direction architectures, tools, and apparatus Sep. 22, 2009
7590962 Design method and architecture for power gate switch placement Sep. 15, 2009
7590960 Placing partitioned circuit designs within iterative implementation flows Sep. 15, 2009
7590959 Layout system, layout program, and layout method for text or other layout elements along a grid Sep. 15, 2009
7587695 Protection boundaries in a parallel printed circuit board design environment Sep. 8, 2009
7581202 Method for generation, placement, and routing of test structures in test chips Aug. 25, 2009
7581198 Method and system for the modular design and layout of integrated circuits Aug. 25, 2009
7577931 Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same Aug. 18, 2009
7571410 Resonant tree driven clock distribution grid Aug. 4, 2009
7571408 Methods and apparatus for diagonal route shielding Aug. 4, 2009
7568176 Method, system, and computer program product for hierarchical integrated circuit repartitioning Jul. 28, 2009
7565637 Method of designing package for semiconductor device, layout design tool for performing the same, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device using the same Jul. 21, 2009
RE40855 Integrated circuit having a reduced spacing between a bus and adjacent circuitry Jul. 14, 2009
7562327 Mask layout design improvement in gate width direction Jul. 14, 2009
7562326 Method of generating a standard cell layout and transferring the standard cell layout to a substrate Jul. 14, 2009
7562316 Apparatus for power consumption reduction Jul. 14, 2009
7555733 Hierarchical partitioning Jun. 30, 2009
7546559 Method of optimization of clock gating in integrated circuit designs Jun. 9, 2009
7543259 Method and device for deciding support portion position in a backup device Jun. 2, 2009
7543249 Embedded switchable power ring Jun. 2, 2009
7539964 Cell placement taking into account consumed current amount May. 26, 2009
7539962 Pattern data correcting method, photo mask manufacturing method, semiconductor device manufacturing method, program and semiconductor device May. 26, 2009
7539961 Library-based solver for modeling an integrated circuit May. 26, 2009
7539893 Systems and methods for speed binning of integrated circuits May. 26, 2009
7536661 Incremental placement during physical synthesis May. 19, 2009
7536658 Power pad synthesizer for an integrated circuit design May. 19, 2009
7533363 System for integrated circuit layout partition and extraction for independent layout processing May. 12, 2009
7533357 Method and apparatus to target pre-determined spatially varying voltage variation across the area of the VLSI power distribution system using frequency domain analysis May. 12, 2009
7530045 Recursive partitioning based placement for programmable logic devices using non-rectilinear device-cutlines May. 5, 2009
7526739 Methods and systems for computer aided design of 3D integrated circuits Apr. 28, 2009
7524685 Manufacturing method of a display device Apr. 28, 2009
7523419 Semiconductor integrated device for preventing breakdown and degradation of a gate oxide film caused by charge-up in manufacturing steps thereof, design method thereof, designing apparatus met Apr. 21, 2009
7516434 Layout design program, layout design device and layout design method for semiconductor integrated circuit Apr. 7, 2009
7512921 Method and apparatus for designing integrated circuit enabling the yield of integrated circuit to be improved by considering random errors Mar. 31, 2009
7509622 Dummy filling technique for improved planarization of chip surface topography Mar. 24, 2009
7509547 System and method for testing of interconnects in a programmable logic device Mar. 24, 2009
7509247 Electromagnetic solutions for full-chip analysis Mar. 24, 2009
7502721 Product design support system, product design support method, and program Mar. 10, 2009



 
 
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