US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Aug. 25 for "Dynamic ordering of design rule checks" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,999, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Dynamic ordering of design rule checks" was invented by Chin-Hsiung Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Sheng-Wei Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chau-Chin Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Hsiang Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Guo-Ting Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), James Yu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Philip Hui-Yuh Tai (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: receiving an integrated circuit design including a plurality of cells; performing a first plurality of design rule checks on a first portion of the plurality of cells of the integrated circuit design based on a sequence ...