Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor – Nanotechnology related integrated circuit design
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-31
2006-01-31
Whitmore, Stacy A. (Department: 2825)
Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor
Nanotechnology related integrated circuit design
C716S030000, C716S030000, C716S030000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06993738
ABSTRACT:
A method for placing spare cells into an auto-place-route (APR) block of an integrated circuit is disclosed. The list of functional cells to be included in the block is determined along with the netlist. The sum of the areas of the functional cells and the desired spare cell area is used as the area of the block boundary. The boundary is provided as input to an auto-placement tool along with the netlist and the list of functional cells. The list of functional cells specifically does not include the spare cells so that the tool does not place spare cells in the boundary. Consequently, the spare cell area may be utilized as wiggle-room by the tool to efficiently place the functional cells. The tool produces a placement of the functional cells that includes white space in the boundary. Spare cells are then placed into the white space.
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Brazell Mark
Essbaum Alexander
Cavis E. Alan
Dimyan Magid Y.
Huffman James W.
IP-First LLC
Whitmore Stacy A.
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