Patent ReferencesAutomated design program for LSI and VLSI circuits Method for manufacturing a gate array integrated circuit device Method for manufacturing a custom-circuit LSI, and a gate array device Hierarchical, computerized design of integrated circuits Method and structure for use in designing and building electronic systems in integrated circuits Routing method in computer-aided-customization of universal arrays and resulting integrated circuit Computer aided design method and apparatus comprising means for automatically generating pin-to-pin interconnection lists between respective discrete electrical component circuits Method and system of circuit pattern understanding and layout Routing method for use in wiring design Patent #: 4752887 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 06/945946 filed on 12/24/1986US Classes:716/11, Layout editor (e.g., updating)716/2, Optimization (e.g., redundancy, compaction)716/3Translation (e.g., conversion, equivalence)ExaminersPrimary: Shaw, Gareth D.Assistant: Kriess, Kevin A. Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 17/50 (20060101)Foreign Application Priority Data1986-01-08 JPAbstractHerein disclosed is an automatic design system for automatically generating a data structure, which is only implicitly expressed by a logic specification description, by deriving, in case a logic system has data structures of similar constructions, one data structure from the structure description and transfer behavior description of the other data structure. | |