US Patent Issued to GDM Holding on April 14 for "Automated transistor-level placement for design of integrated circuits" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,532, issued on April 14, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated transistor-level placement for design of integrated circuits" was invented by Xiaoqing Xu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dino Ruic (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for designing an integrated circuit using transistor placement optimization is provided. A computing system receives a specification for the integrated circuit. The specification includes a netlist describing a plurality of transistors and connections between terminals of the plurality of transistors. The computing...