Inventor
VILLARRUBIA PAUL G
US41 patents
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IBM
35 patentsUS7624366B2Nov 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