Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Sunil Ashtaputre

11Patents
10h-index
12Co-inventors
61Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 10, 1989 → May 30, 1997

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5072402A Routing system and method for integrated circuits Physics 57 Expired
US5353235A Wire length minimization in channel compactor Physics 50 Expired
US5485396A Symbolic routing guidance for wire networks in VLSI circuits Physics 49 Expired
US5638291A Method and apparatus for making integrated circuits by inserting buffers into a netlist to control clock skew Physics 49 Expired
US5974245A Method and apparatus for making integrated circuits by inserting buffers into a netlist Physics 49 Expired
US5666290A Interactive time-driven method of component placement that more directly constrains critical paths using net-based constraints Physics 48 Expired
US5349536A Method for optimally placing components of a VLSI circuit Physics 40 Expired
US6014506A Method and apparatus for improving engineering change order placement in integrated circuit designs Physics 36 Expired
US5953236A Method and apparatus for implementing engineering change orders in integrated circuit designs Physics 34 Expired
US5399517A Method of routing three layer metal gate arrays using a channel router Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Expired
US5377125A Improved pad ring router Physics 5 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.