LAYOUT DEVICE, LAYOUT METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR LAYOUT

• Main Author: HASEGAWA TOMOHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 08.04.2022
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

To provide a layout device in which an increase in wiring load is suppressed and wiring is appropriately performed.SOLUTION: A layout device according to an embodiment of the present invention performs designing by arranging one or more elements in each layer of a plurality of layers and providing wiring necessary for the one or more elements and includes: priority order determination means 231 for predicting the magnitude of a resistance value of wiring generated when the elements are arranged in each ROW of each layer based on arrangement information of the elements and determining a priority order of a ROW where the wiring is designed based on the prediction result; and track wiring means 232 for providing wiring of a line connection target node for a wiring track of each ROW according to the determined priority order of the ROW.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】配線負荷の増大を抑制し、適切に配線するようにしたレイアウト装置を提供することである。【解決手段】本発明の実施形態に係るレイアウト装置は、複数層の各層に１以上の素子を配置し、当該１以上の素子に必要な配線を設ける設計を行うレイアウト装置であり、前記素子の配置情報に基づき前記各層の各ＲＯＷに素子を配置した場合に生じる配線の抵抗値の大小を予測し、予測結果に基づき前記配線を設計するＲＯＷの優先順位を決定する優先順位決定手段２３１と、前記決定されたＲＯＷの優先順に従って前記各ＲＯＷの配線トラックに対し結線対象ノードの配線を設けるトラック配線手段２３２とを具備する。【選択図】図２