US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Sept. 2 for "Generating and utilizing manufacturable netlists of three-dimensional integrated circuits" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,117, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating and utilizing manufacturable netlists of three-dimensional integrated circuits" was invented by Xun Liu (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device generates a routing graph in accordance with a three-dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) configuration of a 3DIC device. The processing device performs net routing with respect to the routing graph. The processing device determines, based on a net routing result of the net routing, whether at least one valid modified routing graph exists in view of an initial netlist correspondi...