Architectural physical synthesis

A non-transitory machine readable storage medium containing a plurality of executable instructions, which when executed on a digital processing system cause said digital processing system to perform operations to design an integrated circuit (IC), said operations comprising:

• determining a placement decision for a portion of a design of the IC at a high level circuit representation;
• determining an incomplete placement information including a resource availability for the portion of the IC based on the placement decision;
• and
• determining one or more synthesis transforms based on the resource availability for the portion of the design at the high level circuit representation, wherein at least the determining the incomplete placement information, and determining the one or more synthesis transforms are continuously repeated until an optimized design state is reached.

A data processing system to design an integrated circuit (IC), the data processing system comprising:

• means for determining a placement decision for a portion of a design of the IC at a high level circuit representation;
• means for determining an incomplete placement information including a resource availability for the portion of the IC based on the placement decision;
• and
• means for determining one or more synthesis transforms based on the resource availability for the portion of the design at the high level circuit representation, wherein at least one of the determining the incomplete placement information, and determining one or more synthesis transforms are continuously repeated until an optimized design state is reached.