METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING FLOOR PLAN

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for automatically determining a floor plan that makes it possible to reduce the time to process a floor plan by reducing the number of times that the floor plan is remade. SOLUTION: The method for automatically determining the floor plan of a semiconductor integrated circuit comprises an extraction step for extracting a register F and logic operation cells W-Z; a cluster generation step for generating an assembly of the logic operation cells W-Z as a cluster cell; a first cell positioning step for determining the positions of the cluster cell and the register F in such a way that the logic operation cells W-Z within the cluster cell are located in proximity to one another; a selection step for selecting logic hierarchy blocks that determine the floor plan; and a hierarchy block positioning and wiring area determining step for determining an area where the logic hierarchy blocks are positioned. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI