US Patent Issued to Altera on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for generating placements for circuit designs using pyramidal flows" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,414, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating placements for circuit designs using pyramidal flows" was invented by Alexander Andreev (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Rusakov (Moscow) and Alexander Yakhontov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit design system is configured to generate a circuit design for an integrated circuit. The circuit design system includes a placement tool configured to generate a graph comprising flows between objects in a first level of a pyramid and targets in the first level. The placement tool generates clusters of objects in a second l...