US Patent Issued to Synopsys on April 29 for "Integrated circuit design and layout with multiple interpreters" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,020, issued on April 29, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit design and layout with multiple interpreters" was invented by Chia-Hsuan Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yao-Jih Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chi-Liang Yang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a circuit layout includes generating a plurality of symbols. Each of the plurality of symbols identifies one of multiple versions of code describing a circuit layout. The method also includes loading the plurality of symbols into a design platform used to compile the code describing the circuit layout. The design platform h...