US Patent Issued to D2S on June 23 for "Concurrently routing multiple partitions of an integrated circuit design" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,347, issued on June 23, was assigned to D2S INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Concurrently routing multiple partitions of an integrated circuit design" was invented by Akira Fujimura (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide an integrated circuit (IC) that has a novel non-preferred direction (NPD) wiring architecture. In some embodiments, the IC includes a substrate and multiple wiring layers, which include a first set of one or more wiring layers with no preferred wiring directions, and a second set of one or more wiring layers with preferred wiring directions. In some embodiments, the first ...