ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,830, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Field-net for placement evaluation" was invented by Xiang Gao (San Jose, Calif.), Yi-Min Jiang (Campbell, Calif.) and Manish Sharma (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system and method for determining a function for a quality of results (QoR) for a circuit design. The method includes receiving a circuit design that includes a first node, a second node, and a connection between the first node and the second node in a design space, placing an array of points within the design space, sampling first field values of t...