REPRESENTING THE DESIGN OF A SUB-MODULE IN A HIERARCHICAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM

Patent №

US 7,103,863

Granted

2006-09-05

Filed 2002

Owner

MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION, INC.

+1 more

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10167293

A method for modeling integrated circuit designs in a hierarchical design automation system which utilizes a block abstraction including therein set of all database objects (cells, nets, wires, vias, and blockages) that are necessary to achieve accurate placement, routing, extraction, simulation, and verification of the block's ancestors in the hierarchy.

AI hardwareG06F 30/3315G06F 30/30G06F 30/33

AI classification

AI hardware0.82
Planning0.15
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION, INC.

assignment · 133110590

SYNOPSYS, INC.

merger · 536420093

Assignors

BURKS, TIMOTHY M., RIEPE, MICHAEL A., SAVOJ, HAMID, SWANSON, ROBERT M., VAHTRA, KAREN, VAN GINNEKEN, LUKAS

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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