Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1993-12-22
1995-01-24
Trans, Vincent N.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
364488, G06F 1560
Patent
active
053847105
ABSTRACT:
A design layout sequence for an application specific integrated circuit such as a gate array includes a schematic capture step, which results in a logic netlist file, and a placement and routing step which results in a number of various files defining, for example, bias drivers, I/O macros, and relationships between chip pads and I/O signals. The design layout sequence culminates in a physical data base file. The connectivity of this physical data base file is checked by first generating a circuit level netlist file for the entire option, and then comparing the circuit level netlist with the physical data base file. In generating the circuit level netlist file, information is obtained from the logic netlist file, as well as from some of the other files created in the design-layout sequence. In addition, basic information from which the circuit level netlist is constructed is obtained from a skeleton file library and a subcircuit library. The contents and methodology for deriving the skeleton file library and the subcircuit library are discussed.
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Lalchandani Amrit K.
Lam Nim C.
Carroll David H.
National Semiconductor Corporation
Nelson H. Donald
Robinson Stephen R.
Trans Vincent N.
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