US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Feb. 4 for "Maximum turn constraint for routing of integrated circuit designs" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,977, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Maximum turn constraint for routing of integrated circuit designs" was invented by Wing-Kai Chow (Austin, Texas), Hongxin Kong (College Station, Texas) and Mehmet Can Yildiz (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure address systems and methods for routing an integrated circuit design based on a maximum turn constraint. Data describing an integrated circuit is accessed. The integrated circuit design comprises a net specifying a connection between a first pin and a second pin. A maximum turn constraint is accesse...