US Patent Issued to Xilinx on July 21 for "Runtime efficient multi-stage router flow for circuit designs" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,350, issued on July 21, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Runtime efficient multi-stage router flow for circuit designs" was invented by Dinesh D. Gaitonde (Freemont, Calif.), Chirag Ravishankar (Erie, Colo.) and Stefan Nikolic (Vaud, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-stage routing for a circuit design includes performing, using computer hardware, a global routing of the circuit design using a hybrid routing graph for a target integrated circuit. The hybrid routing graph includes routing nodes and a plurality of coarsened routing nodes. Each coarsened routing node includes a plurality of constituent rout...