US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on March 24 for "Grid cell routing capacity adjustment based on pin density" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,858, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Grid cell routing capacity adjustment based on pin density" was invented by Gracieli Posser (Austin, Texas), Mateus Paiva Fogaca (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Mehmet Can Yildiz (Austin, Texas) and Charles Jay Alpert (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for adjusting routing capacity of a grid cell based on pin density, which can be used in global routing of a circuit design and may be part of electronic design automation (EDA). More particularly, various embodiments model routing capacity of grid cells of a ci...