Method for displaying timing information of an integrated circuit floorplan
AssigneeTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
InventorsYi-Lin Chuang, Huang-Yu Chen, Yun-Han Lee
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Abstract
A method includes (a) generating timing information of an integrated circuit (IC) floorplan by a processing unit, (b) displaying on a display device a representation of the IC floorplan according to the timing information, (c) receiving user input via an input device, the user input associated with an IC macro of the IC floorplan, (d) updating the timing information associated with the IC macro to generated updated timing information according to the user input, and (e) altering display of the representation according to the updated timing information.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- (a) generating timing information of an integrated circuit (IC) floorplan by a processing unit;
- (b) displaying on a display device a representation of the IC floorplan according to the timing information;
- (c) receiving user input via an input device, the user input associated with an IC macro of the IC floorplan;
- (d) updating the timing information associated with the IC macro to generated updated timing information according to the user input;
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- (e) altering display of the representation according to the updated timing information.
A method comprising:
- (a) generating timing information of an integrated circuit (IC) floorplan by a processing unit;
- (b) displaying on a display device a representation of the IC floorplan in a first region of a display;
- (c) displaying a graphic associated with the timing information in a second region of the display;
- (d) receiving, via an input device, user input associated with an IC macro of the IC floorplan;
- (e) recalculating the timing information while receiving the user input to generate updated timing information;
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- (f) altering the display according to the updated timing information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.