Interactive floor planner apparatus for circuit blocks

Abstract

The present invention relates to an interactive floor planner apparatus for determining a placement position of functional blocks, in which apparatus functional block information including information on pins and connection information on pin connection between the functional blocks are defined, the apparatus comprising: a functional block shape extracting unit for dividing each of the functional blocks into one or a plurality of divided pieces on the basis of shape of the functional block obtained from the functional block information; an inter-functional block connection calculating unit for calculating a number of connections between pins belonging to divided pieces of two functional blocks connected to each other, between the divided pieces, as a number of connections between the divided pieces on the basis of the connection information; and a ratsnest display unit for displaying the connections between the divided pieces as a combined single line having a line width corresponding to the number of connections between the divided pieces.

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