US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Dec. 23 for "Detecting and modeling via during global routing" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,274, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting and modeling via during global routing" was invented by Mateus Paiva Fogaca (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Gracieli Posser (Austin, Texas), Mehmet Can Yildiz (Austin, Texas) and Charles Jay Alpert (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for detecting and modeling vias of a circuit design during global routing, which may be part of electronic design automation (EDA). In particular, various embodiments described herein detect and model a big via during a global routing process, which can help mitigate or avo...