Apparatus and associated methods for parallelizing clustering and placement
US9594859B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 29, 2008 |
| Grant date | Mar 14, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 28, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F30/392
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system for parallelizing software in computer-aided design (CAD) software for circuit design includes a computer. The computer is configured to form or optimize a plurality of clusters in parallel. Each cluster in the plurality of clusters includes a set of nodes in a netlist in a design. The computer is configured to determine placements for blocks in a netlist in parallel, based on iterative improvement, partitioning, or analytic techniques.
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