US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on July 29 for "System and method for generating a floorplan for a digital circuit using reinforcement learning" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,627, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for generating a floorplan for a digital circuit using reinforcement learning" was invented by Zhanguang Zhang (Montreal), Mohammad Amini (Montreal), Yingxue Zhang (Montreal) and Wulong Liu (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating a floorplan for a circuit are disclosed. A netlist graph of the circuit and block features associated with blocks of the circuit are obtained. A reinforcement learning (RL) agent is used to generate a sequence of corner block list (CBL) actions. Each CBL action is ge...