METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING SOFT CONSTRAINTS IN TOOLS USED FOR DESIGNING PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICES

Patent №

US 8,589,849

Granted

2013-11-19

Filed 2007

Owner

ALTERA CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

5

ml · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11657301

A method for designing a system on a target device utilizing programmable logic devices (PLDs) includes generating options for utilizing resources on the PLDs in response to user specified constraints. The options for utilizing the resources on the PLDs are refined independent of the user specified constraints.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Machine learning1.00
Evolutionary computation0.99
AI hardware0.88
Knowledge representation0.72
Vision0.01
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

ALTERA CORPORATION

assignment · 267120097

Assignors

BORER, TERRY P., QUAN, GABRIEL, BROWN, STEPHEN D., SINGH, DESHANAND P., SANFORD, CHRIS, BETZ, VAUGHN, PANTOFARU, CAROLINE, SWARTZ, JORDAN

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

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