OPTIMUM POSITION DETERMINING METHOD OF BLOCK PIN AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH RECORDED PROGRAM FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD BY COMPUTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To previously prevent the occurrence of an unpredicted timing error by assuring that each block pin is arranged in the neighborhood of a connection cell. SOLUTION: After a block position arranged on a semiconductor chip is determined in a step S11, the position of the block pin of each block is temporarily determined in response to the block position in a step S12. Thereafter, in a step S12 cell arrangement is carried out in each block, and in a step S14 the position of the block pin is modified to an optimum position in response to the position of the cell connected to the block pin out of the cells arranged in each block.