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Method of estimating wire length including correction and summation of estimated wire length of every pin pair

  • US 6,099,578 A
  • Filed: 03/02/1998
  • Issued: 08/08/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/25/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of estimating wire length, comprising the steps of:

  • defining a net on a semiconductor integrated circuit and extracting pin pairs from said net, said pin pairs represented by an edge between any pair of nodes of a complete graph in which macro cells on the net serve as nodes;

    estimating wire length of each of said pin pairs; and

    estimating wire length of said net based on the estimated wire length of each of said pin pairs;

    whereinsaid step of estimating the estimated wire length of each pin pair includes the steps ofextracting a subcircuit satisfying a prescribed relation with a pin pair which is an object of processing, andestimating wire length of said object pin pair based on a characteristic of said subcircuit.

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