System and method for integrated circuit design and implementation using mixed cell libraries

A system and method for designing circuits, such as integrated circuits, that allow a designer to employ mixed cell libraries. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a cell placement EDA tool configured to transform a logical circuit representation into a physical circuit representation by plac...

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Main Authors GRIESBACH WILLIAM R, SCHNEIDER, JR. CLAYTON E
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 08.04.2014
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A system and method for designing circuits, such as integrated circuits, that allow a designer to employ mixed cell libraries. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a cell placement EDA tool configured to transform a logical circuit representation into a physical circuit representation by placing cells from mixed cell libraries into clusters corresponding to the mixed cell libraries and (2) an interconnect routing EDA tool associated with the cell placement EDA tool and configured to route interconnects in buffer zones separating the clusters.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201213546791