Block based design methodology

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6694501
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09754734

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A method and apparatus for designing a circuit system, including selecting a plurality of pre-designed circuit blocks to be used to design the circuit system, collecting data reflecting the experience of the designer regarding the pre-designed circuit blocks, the designer's experience being adaptable to a processing method, accepting or rejecting a design of the circuit system in a manner based on the designer's experience data and acceptable degree of risk, upon acceptance, forming block specifications containing criteria and modified constraints for each of the circuit blocks, upon acceptance, forming block specifications for deploying the circuit blocks on a floor plan of a chip, as a system on a chip, in compliance with the criteria and modified constraints, and substantially without changing the selected circuit block and the processing method.

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CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC2655 SEELY AVENUE BLDG 5 SAN JOSE CA 95134

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chang, Henry Sunnyvale, CA 430 4392
Cooke, Larry Los Gatos, CA 14 583
Hunt, Merrill Escondido, CA 11 370
Ke, Wuudiann Cupertino, CA 14 402
Lennard, Christopher K Sunnyvale, CA 11 426
Martin, Grant Pleasanton, CA 11 353
Paterson, Peter Mission Viejo, CA 10 353
Truong, Khoan Milpitas, CA 10 353
Venkatramani, Kumar Saratoga, CA 14 568

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