Architectural physical synthesis

摘要

The present invention discloses methods and apparatuses to design an integrated circuit. According to one aspect, a method of designing an integrated circuit comprises determining a state of a design of the integrated circuit at a high level design representation of the integrated circuit, wherein the state of the design of the integrated circuit comprises a netlist with at least one of timing data, resource information, placement information, routing information, and power data. The method further comprises determining a first transform for the state, changing the state of the design at the high level design representation of the integrated circuit using the first transform, and determining a second transform based on the changed state.

主权项

1. A method of designing an integrated circuit, the method comprising:
determining using a processor a state of a design of the integrated circuit at a high level design representation of the integrated circuit, wherein the state of the design of the integrated circuit comprises at least one of a netlist, timing data, resource information, placement information, routing information, and power data; determining a first transform for the state; changing the state of the design at the high level design representation of the integrated circuit using the first transform; and determining a second transform based on the changed state information comprising at least one of a modified netlist and a resource availability for a portion of the design.