Inventor
RAMJI SHYAM
US45 patents
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IBM
37 patentsUS7549137B2Jun 16, 2009
Latch placement for high performance and low power circuits
IBM43 citations92
US7076755B2Jul 11, 2006
Method for successive placement based refinement of a generalized cost function
IBM24 citations89
US9436791B1Sep 6, 2016
Optimizing placement of circuit resources using a globally accessible placement memory
IBM4 citations84
US9418188B1Aug 16, 2016
Optimizing placement of circuit resources using a globally accessible placement memory
IBM5 citations84
US8954912B2Feb 10, 2015
Structured placement of latches/flip-flops to minimize clock power in high-performance designs
IBM18 citations84
US8010926B2Aug 30, 2011
Clock power minimization with regular physical placement of clock repeater components
IBM15 citations83
US7934188B2Apr 26, 2011
Legalization of VLSI circuit placement with blockages using hierarchical row slicing
IBM16 citations83
US8782584B2Jul 15, 2014
Post-placement cell shifting
IBM10 citations82
US7089521B2Aug 8, 2006
Method for legalizing the placement of cells in an integrated circuit layout
IBM16 citations79
US9747400B2Aug 29, 2017
Optimizing placement of circuit resources using a globally accessible placement memory
IBM2 citations73
US9703914B2Jul 11, 2017
Optimizing placement of circuit resources using a globally accessible placement memory
IBM2 citations73
US9495501B1Nov 15, 2016
Large cluster persistence during placement optimization of integrated circuit designs
IBM4 citations73
US8347257B2Jan 1, 2013
Detailed routability by cell placement
IBM5 citations72
US10558775B2Feb 11, 2020
Memory element graph-based placement in integrated circuit design
IBM4 citations71
US9858377B2Jan 2, 2018
Constraint-driven pin optimization for hierarchical design convergence
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
US10157255B2Dec 18, 2018
Hierarchically aware interior pinning for large synthesis blocks
IBM3 citations69
US9910952B2Mar 6, 2018
Hierarchically aware interior pinning for large synthesis blocks
IBM4 citations69
US12423502B2Sep 23, 2025
Rule check heatmap prediction
IBM1 citations62
US11574249B2Feb 7, 2023
Streamlining data processing optimizations for machine learning workloads
IBM0 citations62
US10796064B2Oct 6, 2020
Autonomous placement to satisfy self-aligned double patterning constraints
IBM1 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
US9053285B2Jun 9, 2015
Thermally aware pin assignment and device placement
IBM3 citations61
US9519744B1Dec 13, 2016
Merging of storage elements on multi-cycle signal distribution trees into multi-bit cells
IBM2 citations60
US12555114B2Feb 17, 2026
Fraud detection using multi-task learning and/or deep learning
IBM1 citations59
US10762271B2Sep 1, 2020
Model-based refinement of the placement process in integrated circuit generation
IBM1 citations59
US10685160B2Jun 16, 2020
Large cluster persistence during placement optimization of integrated circuit designs
IBM0 citations52
US10210297B2Feb 19, 2019
Optimizing placement of circuit resources using a globally accessible placement memory
IBM0 citations52
US10140409B2Nov 27, 2018
Large cluster persistence during placement optimization of integrated circuit designs
IBM0 citations52
US8347249B2Jan 1, 2013
Incremental timing optimization and placement
IBM1 citations52
US9715572B2Jul 25, 2017
Hierarchical wire-pin co-optimization
IBM1 citations50
US9697322B2Jul 4, 2017
Hierarchical wire-pin co-optimization
IBM0 citations50
US8930867B2Jan 6, 2015
Scheduling for parallel processing of regionally-constrained placement problem
IBM0 citations50
US10891411B2Jan 12, 2021
Hierarchy-driven logical and physical synthesis co-optimization
IBM0 citations48
US10216882B2Feb 26, 2019
Critical path straightening system based on free-space aware and timing driven incremental placement
IBM0 citations36
ALPERT CHARLES J
4 patentsUS8595675B1Nov 26, 2013
Local objective optimization in global placement of an integrated circuit design
ALPERT CHARLES J5 citations73
US8495534B2Jul 23, 2013
Post-placement cell shifting
ALPERT CHARLES J5 citations71
US8769457B2Jul 1, 2014
Separate refinement of local wirelength and local module density in intermediate placement of an integrated circuit design
ALPERT CHARLES J0 citations42
US8683411B2Mar 25, 2014
Electronic design automation object placement with partially region-constrained objects
ALPERT CHARLES J0 citations36