US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 2 for "Alignment cost for integrated circuit placement" (California, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,164, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Alignment cost for integrated circuit placement" was invented by Ebrahim Mohammadgholi Songhori (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shen Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Azalia Mirhoseini (Mountain View, Calif.), Anna Goldie (San Francisco), Roger Carpenter (Novato, Calif.), Wenjie Jiang (Fremont, Calif.), Young-Joon Lee (Saratoga, Calif.) and James Laudon (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to automatically determining floor planning in chips, which factors in memory macro alignment. A deep reinforcement learning (RL) agent can be t...