CONGESTION AWARE PIN OPTIMIZER

Patent №

US 7,971,174

Granted

2011-06-28

Filed 2008

Owner

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12233414

A circuit design process for the reduction of routing congestion is described. This process includes a block placement operation, an initial pin optimization for the block placement, and global routing based upon the initial pin optimization. Congestion data is generated from the global routing and, in an automated process, the pins are re-optimized, based upon the congestion data. This process can be used as part of a custom layout design process, for example.

AI classification

AI hardware0.99
Evolutionary computation0.45
Vision0.19
Planning0.16
Machine learning0.01
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.

assignment · 215570180

Assignors

KHALSA, MAHENDRA SINGH, GHOSH, SANJIB, GUPTA, VANDANA, MARWAH, HITESH, FANGARIA, PAWAN

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