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VILLARRUBIA PAUL G

US41 patents
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IBM

35 patents
US7624366B2Nov 24, 2009

Clock aware placement

IBM27 citations92
US7549137B2Jun 16, 2009

Latch placement for high performance and low power circuits

IBM43 citations92
US6671867B2Dec 30, 2003

Analytical constraint generation for cut-based global placement

IBM23 citations92
US7581201B2Aug 25, 2009

System and method for sign-off timing closure of a VLSI chip

IBM35 citations90
US9754062B2Sep 5, 2017

Timing adjustments across transparent latches to facilitate power reduction

IBM9 citations84
US8954912B2Feb 10, 2015

Structured placement of latches/flip-flops to minimize clock power in high-performance designs

IBM18 citations84
US7882475B2Feb 1, 2011

Method to reduce the wirelength of analytical placement techniques by modulation of spreading forces vectors

IBM8 citations84
US7467369B2Dec 16, 2008

Constrained detailed placement

IBM13 citations84
US9098669B1Aug 4, 2015

Boundary latch and logic placement to satisfy timing constraints

IBM7 citations82
US8782584B2Jul 15, 2014

Post-placement cell shifting

IBM10 citations82
US7996812B2Aug 9, 2011

Method of minimizing early-mode violations causing minimum impact to a chip design

IBM16 citations82
US8370782B2Feb 5, 2013

Buffer-aware routing in integrated circuit design

IBM9 citations80
US9483596B1Nov 1, 2016

Multi power synthesis in digital circuit design

IBM16 citations77
US9495501B1Nov 15, 2016

Large cluster persistence during placement optimization of integrated circuit designs

IBM4 citations73
US8826215B1Sep 2, 2014

Routing centric design closure

IBM6 citations73
US10528695B1Jan 7, 2020

Integer arithmetic method for wire length minimization in global placement with convolution based density penalty computation

IBM5 citations72
US8347257B2Jan 1, 2013

Detailed routability by cell placement

IBM5 citations72
US10558775B2Feb 11, 2020

Memory element graph-based placement in integrated circuit design

IBM4 citations71
US8954915B2Feb 10, 2015

Structured placement of hierarchical soft blocks during physical synthesis of an integrated circuit

IBM6 citations71
US10803224B2Oct 13, 2020

Propagating constants of structured soft blocks while preserving the relative placement structure

IBM5 citations70
US11080456B2Aug 3, 2021

Automated design closure with abutted hierarchy

IBM4 citations66
US12417333B2Sep 16, 2025

Short net pin alignment for routing

IBM0 citations62
US12282725B2Apr 22, 2025

Enhanced alignment for global placement in a circuit

IBM0 citations62
US12277375B2Apr 15, 2025

Power staple avoidance for routing via reduction

IBM0 citations62
US10635773B1Apr 28, 2020

Enhancing stability of half perimeter wire length (HPWL)-driven analytical placement

IBM1 citations62
US11080443B2Aug 3, 2021

Memory element graph-based placement in integrated circuit design

IBM0 citations61
US12547809B2Feb 10, 2026

Bit flip aware latch placement

IBM0 citations59
US10762271B2Sep 1, 2020

Model-based refinement of the placement process in integrated circuit generation

IBM1 citations59
US8799846B1Aug 5, 2014

Facilitating the design of a clock grid in an integrated circuit

IBM2 citations57
US10685160B2Jun 16, 2020

Large cluster persistence during placement optimization of integrated circuit designs

IBM0 citations52
US10140409B2Nov 27, 2018

Large cluster persistence during placement optimization of integrated circuit designs

IBM0 citations52
US8930867B2Jan 6, 2015

Scheduling for parallel processing of regionally-constrained placement problem

IBM0 citations50
US11074379B2Jul 27, 2021

Multi-cycle latch tree synthesis

IBM0 citations49
US11916384B2Feb 27, 2024

Region-based power grid generation through modification of an initial power grid based on timing analysis

IBM0 citations48
US10891411B2Jan 12, 2021

Hierarchy-driven logical and physical synthesis co-optimization

IBM0 citations48

ALPERT CHARLES J

2 patents

MOFFITT MICHAEL D

2 patents

NAM GI-JOON

2 patents