US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 30 for "VLSI placement optimization using self-supervised graph clustering" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,485, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"VLSI placement optimization using self-supervised graph clustering" was invented by Yi-Chen Lu (Tucker, Ga.), Tian Yang (Austin, Texas) and Haoxing Ren (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VLSI placement optimization framework receives a cell connectivity representation and cell characteristics and uses self-supervised graph clustering to optimize cell cluster assignments for power, performance, and area (PPA). The framework provides cell clustering constraints as placement guidance to commercial placers. Specifically, graph learning techniques ...