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Number: 716/9
Name: Data processing: design and analysis of circuit or semiconductor mask > Circuit design > Floorplanning > Detailed placement (i.e., iterative improvement)
Description: Subject matter comprising means or steps for refining the position assignment, the size or the shape of the circuit block units or cells, and evaluating repeatedly the position assignment of the block units or cells until all the cells are replaced as efficiently as possible in a refined portion of the floor planned layout of a PCB or an LSI.


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Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7620922 Method and system for optimized circuit autorouting Nov. 17, 2009
7617465 Method and mechanism for performing latch-up check on an IC design Nov. 10, 2009
7617467 Electrostatic discharge device verification in an integrated circuit Nov. 10, 2009
7614024 Method to implement metal fill during integrated circuit design and layout Nov. 3, 2009
7614025 Method of placement for iterative implementation flows Nov. 3, 2009
7614028 Representation, configuration, and reconfiguration of routing method and system Nov. 3, 2009
7610568 Methods and apparatus for making placement sensitive logic modifications Oct. 27, 2009
7607112 Method and apparatus for performing metalization in an integrated circuit process Oct. 20, 2009
7607113 Wiring pattern determination method and computer program product thereof Oct. 20, 2009
7603640 Multilevel IC floorplanner Oct. 13, 2009
7603643 Method and system for conducting design explorations of an integrated circuit Oct. 13, 2009
7596773 Automating optimal placement of macro-blocks in the design of an integrated circuit Sep. 29, 2009
7594212 Automatic pin placement for integrated circuits to aid circuit board design Sep. 22, 2009
7594196 Block interstitching using local preferred direction architectures, tools, and apparatus Sep. 22, 2009
7594205 Interface configurable for use with target/initiator signals Sep. 22, 2009
7590962 Design method and architecture for power gate switch placement Sep. 15, 2009
7590959 Layout system, layout program, and layout method for text or other layout elements along a grid Sep. 15, 2009
7590960 Placing partitioned circuit designs within iterative implementation flows Sep. 15, 2009
7587699 Automated system for designing and developing field programmable gate arrays Sep. 8, 2009
7587696 Semiconductor device, layout method and apparatus and program Sep. 8, 2009
7587695 Protection boundaries in a parallel printed circuit board design environment Sep. 8, 2009
7584445 Sequence-pair creating apparatus and sequence-pair creating method Sep. 1, 2009
7581198 Method and system for the modular design and layout of integrated circuits Aug. 25, 2009
7581201 System and method for sign-off timing closure of a VLSI chip Aug. 25, 2009
7577933 Timing driven pin assignment Aug. 18, 2009
7571415 Layout of power device Aug. 4, 2009
7571410 Resonant tree driven clock distribution grid Aug. 4, 2009
7571409 Circuit design device and circuit design program Aug. 4, 2009
7571408 Methods and apparatus for diagonal route shielding Aug. 4, 2009
7568177 System and method for power gating of an integrated circuit 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
7565638 Density-based layer filler for integrated circuit design 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
7555734 Processing constraints in computer-aided design for integrated circuits Jun. 30, 2009
7539964 Cell placement taking into account consumed current amount May. 26, 2009
7539966 Enhanced OP3 algorithms for net cuts, net joins, and probe points for a digital design May. 26, 2009
7536658 Power pad synthesizer for an integrated circuit design May. 19, 2009
7536659 Semiconductor memory device and semiconductor device May. 19, 2009
7536661 Incremental placement during physical synthesis May. 19, 2009
7536664 Physical design system and method May. 19, 2009
7536666 Integrated circuit and method of routing a clock signal in an integrated circuit May. 19, 2009
7533363 System for integrated circuit layout partition and extraction for independent layout processing May. 12, 2009
7533358 Integrated sizing, layout, and extractor tool for circuit design May. 12, 2009
7523429 System for designing integrated circuits with enhanced manufacturability Apr. 21, 2009
7523430 Programmable logic device design tool with simultaneous switching noise awareness Apr. 21, 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
7519927 Wiring methods to reduce metal variation effects on launch-capture clock pairs in order to minimize cycle-time overlap violations Apr. 14, 2009
7519933 Converging repeater methodology for channel-limited SOC microprocessors Apr. 14, 2009

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