Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for interactively implementing physical electronic designs with track patterns

摘要

Some aspects enable users to interactively define a region in an electronic design, identify or generate a track pattern, and assign the track pattern to the region for subsequent physical implementation for the region. Another aspect interactively represents various results on a display apparatus using one or more distinguishing representation schemes. Another aspect is directed at interactive editing a component of an electronic design having track patterns by iteratively modifying a set of track patterns to reach a reduced set of track patterns and by automatically snapping the component to active track(s) in the reduced set for the physical implementation.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method for interactively implementing physical electronic designs with track patterns, comprising:
using a computing system having at least one processor or at least one processor core to execute a process, the process comprising: identifying an area in an electronic design; interactively defining, with an aid of an interactive design editing mechanism including or coupled with the at least one processor, a sub-area in the area and snapping at least one boundary segment related to the sub-area to one or more strip lines; and assigning one or more track patterns to at least a region in the sub-area, wherein at least one track pattern includes a permitted legal arrangement of a plurality of routing tracks that are used to guide an electronic design automation tool.